MPP Community Edition?
We’ve been getting a few questions about MPP Community edition so I thought I would give you a brief update on the product. First of all, it is alive here and you can download here. It was unintentionally orphaned during the move of the web site to our new platform.
More importantly though, I want to explain what MPP Community is. MPP Community (aka MPP Free Edition) was released to build the MPP user base and name recognition. It represented the first version of our product but was scaled down to only support free content scanners – clamav and spamassassin. It is easier to use than some of the open source apps that do something similar, like amavisd, but it is more streamlined in functionality.
In reality, MPP Community has turned out to be a mixed blessing. We do have many people using it, but few are interested in becoming paying customers. Furthermore, MPP Community is soooooo much less interesting and powerful than MPP that people get the wrong idea about MPP itself. There is virtually no resemblance between MPP Community and our commercial product from the perspective of the GUI, functionality and more.
So for now we will keep MPP Community going with no changes and we will see what the future holds.
Thank you for your continued support.
I just wonder, why would anyone should use the MPP Community Edition, if it includes only SA and clamav? I mean, any skilled unix admin can set up these components in few minutes without the overhead of MPP. What added quality does MPP have to be worth to install? I think you are just saying that MPP Free Edition is a bunch of junk.
Interesting interpretation and I thank you for your comment, but it was not what I was trying to say
MPP Community adds much less overhead than AmavisD and we add value with our GUI, a simple installation, attachment size limits, email signatures that work for all email types, integrated WBL’s, flexible warning controls, quarantine management and more. What i am trying to say is that MPP Community is nothing like our commercial product. There are many thousands of users of MPP Community so this is a message for them to take a look at our commercial product, it has evolved far past what it is available in this product.
Ok, that sounds better
I think, it’s worth to create a comparison table or chart including both the features and the supported anti-spam/-virus applications for the Community and the commercial version. Then one could see the difference between the two versions, as well as the intelligence in your framework present in the Community edition too. If you already have this chart then shame on me. Just an idea.
We had this for a long time and recently removed, maybe we will re-post it. Thank You.