Admin Guide Question

[Scott Silva]

Julian Field spake the following on 9/17/2007 12:49 PM:
> 
> 
> dnsadmin 1bigthink.com wrote:
>> At 10:51 PM 9/16/2007, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone had a copy of the MailScanner 
>>> Administrators Guide the latest via pdf or know of any guides for 
>>> CentOS 5? I am really looking for a detailed guide to get a feel for 
>>> how MailScanner works and how I can implement this software with our 
>>> current systems. Any help is appreciated!!!
>>
>> Aside from the book, you could also download a copy of the program, 
>> itself and browse the MailScanner.conf file, as it is meticulously 
>> commented/documented.
> Note however that the documentation of each configuration option in the 
> book is carefully done using a different wording from the docs in the 
> MailScanner.conf file. So if you don't quite follow one version for a 
> particular config option, you may well understand the other one better. 
> I was very careful to write them independently, so they don't end up 
> saying the same thing.
> 
> The book also has the advantage that, instead of listing the options 
> alphabetically or anything like that, every option is put in context 
> along with its related options.
> 
> So the book does add a lot of content that you won't get elsewhere.
> 
> Buy it straight off the website www.mailscanner.info. Your money is 
> perfectly safe, I am not involved in any of the transactions. There are 
> 2 suppliers, the main one (CafePress for people west of the Atlantic) 
> and a new deal I have recently arranged with Lulu for people east of the 
> Atlantic, so you pay the minimum possible shipping costs. The book 
> itself costs $40 or £20 roughly, which I reckon is cheap for a 
> specialist technical book these days. I might put the price up some 
> time, once I have compared it with similar books in the USA. The UK 
> price is certainly cheaper than similar books on other topics, in my 
> view. It's my only source of income from MailScanner, apart from 
> occasional contract jobs sorting out people's servers and getting them 
> well setup.
> 
> Jules
> 
If you keep it more reasonable, people are more likely to buy new copies every 
year or two. MailScanner has been such a moving target, and the options seem 
to be increasing exponentially.
I do believe you have announced when a new version was available in the past, 
and maybe you could list the current version on the website so people might be 
more likely to know their version is "out of date".

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MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!