Admin Guide Question

[Julian Field]

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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. 
Good thought. It didn't occur to me that people would update their copy.
> MailScanner has been such a moving target, and the options seem to be 
> increasing exponentially.
Every time I think it's pretty much a done job, someone comes up with 
something new they would like it to do!
> 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".
Good idea. I'll have to check what is the current version of the book 
tomorrow morning.

Jules

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