Admin Guide Question

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Thanks for the replies....I was just wondering because the cafe link 
said sorry book could not be found. I appreciate your help! I heard 
MailScanner was the best!

Otis



Julian Field wrote:
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> Scott Silva wrote:
>> Julian Field spake the following on 9/17/2007 12:49 PM:
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>>> 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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