http://linuxintegrators.com/acoliver/code/2005/01/06/0207.html
I got some pretty good feedback from the first pre-release of JBoss Mail server
Milestone 2 that I wanted to put out a second preview release to capture more
feedback.
As some of you know, I run what is basically the HEAD of JBoss Mail server's
CVS module as my personal mail server. There was a time where I claimed it was
unstable. As it turned out I had a combination of hardware failures and MySQL
issues. I've nearly resolved them all (my server still boots to the faulty
disk) and since then JBoss Mail has been extremely stable. Previously I ran
Apache's JAMES; however, I had to restart JAMES frequently (in a cron job) to
keep it stable.
One of the new pieces of JBoss Mail server is the use of the graphical
installation extensions. This second preview takes this a step further, by
attempting to make the installation more seamless from the start to finish. You
merely unzip the distribution and then run "chmod 755 install.sh;./install.sh".
The installation screens are intended to be self-explanatory (and I'd like
feedback where they aren't), but are still a bit crude due to some minor
problems with the Cheese layouts. After answering all of the questions, the
installation outputs a reasonably configured JBoss Mail Server. The
pre-requisites for this pre-release are: JDK 1.4.x (1.4.2 recommended), JBoss
3.2.4 (3.2.6 or 4.0.0 are recommended).
I'd like some further feedback along the same lines as the first preview
release:
1. You must have the JDK as well as JBoss 3.2.6+ or 4.0+ (3.2.4+ should
work but each release should target the latest for now)
2. download: the preview
3. /images/emoticons/angry.gifoptional) set JBOSS_HOME to your jboss
directory
4. unarchive (unzip ... or winzip should work) and cd to the mail
install pack
5. chmod 755 install.sh;./install.sh (if on unix)
6. cd $JBOSS_HOME;
7. bin/run.sh (or bat)
Please exclude from your feedback:
1. Complaints on the cosmetics of the screens (I realize the layout is
not yet ideal). If you manually resize the screen the controls at least fix
themselves.
Help requested:
1. testing installation on Windows. I kind of just "winged it" on the
Windows install. I didn't have access to a win32 when I wrote the install
2. testing security, especially POP TLS which Thunderbird doesn't seem
to support (then tell me what client you used!)
3. Assistence with making cheese's layouts/sizing work better. (from
JBoss/Sourceforge CVS, checkout cheese module)
4. Other database setups
5. Datasource setup wizard
The preview fixes some bugs in preview 1. It supersedes the unannounced preview
2. Namely this preview allows you to specify DNS servers, is binary based as
opposed to source based, fixes problems with TLS, and includes a number of
build enhancements/fixes.
Lastly, I'd like to thank our new contributors -- in particular, Kit who has
been fixing the layouts for Cheese (they aren't perfect yet, but if you saw
them before -- drastic improvement) as well as Heiko Rupp whom helped point out
bugs in the last pre-release. Thanks guys!
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