M2 preview 3 is now available. Please help test/give feedba
acoliver Jan 6, 2005 11:06 AMhttp://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!