Admin Guide Question

[OCOSA ListAcct]

All subscribers to the list. I apologize for replying that many times to 
the list. I just hit the reply on the button I thought it was to he 
individual sender but I have seen the multitude of listings. If you can 
forgive me, I would appreciate it, as I meant no harm.

Thank you!

Otis

Scott Silva wrote:
> Julian Field spake the following on 9/17/2007 2:04 PM:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
> As I believe you saw in the multitude of postings from OCOSA ListAcct 
> the Buy now button on the front page of the website comes up empty.
>