It sure feels like we are on a roll with our improvements for Xserve system administrators, so why should we stop? After listening to complaint after complaint about the difficulty of installing MPP we finally took the advice of Frank Zappa, though applied to software – ‘shut up and play yer guitar’. Instead of explaining why our customers were just not getting it we shut up and listened and have created something that has exceeded our expectations.

Phase 1 was to redesign our admin GUI to make things more apparent, remove cryptic techno speak and drop the assumption that everyone has enough time to figure our product out. This is an ongoing battle, but we have conquered the initial campaign and now we are in clean-up mode.

Phase 2 was to redo our installers so that it was no longer necessary to have a compiler installed or to install any perl modules. This was a monster task believe it or not, but this is conquered thanks to Ovidiu, our technical guru. This was great, but it still required an admin to use the terminal to run our configure scripts.

Phase 3 which we have now delivered has expanded on phase 2 by removing the need to run our configure script from the command line. Since our Xserve customers are either using Postfix, Zimbra or CommuniGate we detect which email server is in use and make all of the appropriate configurations automatically. Yes, MPP provides email archival and large scale email filtering with Zimbra. The installer is one click and it installs MPP, MPP Manager and all dependencies, configures our email server to use MPP and launches Safari at the end with MPP Manager opened up. Pretty slick if you ask me. You still need to disable the Apple junk mail filtering from the admin control panel, but this may change in the future as well.

Phase 4 has some surprises and I am hoping to announce them soon.
[tags]Xserve antispam, MPP, Mac Email Security, Xserve Spam Filtering, Xserve, Mac Email Security[/tags]

Turn any Xserve into a blazing fast email filtering, archival and attachment stripping gateway with MPP. MPP’s single click installation ends spam and provides valuable policy enforcement features not found in any other application. Try MPP today and see why MPP is revolutionizing Xserve email servers.

• Enterprise Grade Spam Protection
  MPP has the most innovative antispam technology available for Xserve email servers.
• Malware Protection
  Protect your unlucky PC brethren from email borne malware
• Enterprise Grade Archival
  Never lose another email again. Centrally store your email in one searchable database. Digitally sign the email to ensure data integrity. Find the email you need with our intuitive web access and save it or restore it to your email server.
• Content Controls
  Stop information leaks, review sensitive email before it leaves, route important email based on content
• Attachment Controls
  Strip large attachments and make them available on your web or ftp server
• Web Access
  Access spam quarantines, archives and configure MPP with an intuitive web interface
• Simple Installation
  One click installs everything and configures your email server
• MTA Support
  Postfix, CommuniGate Pro, Surgemail

I am pleased to announce the new web site of our Portuguese partner, Protagon. Looking for MPP in Brasil?

http://www.messagepartners.com.br/

With the release of MPP Manager 1.1.0 we have made MPP easier to use than ever. We have attempted to look at features in terms of functionality and usefulness and presented them in this manner. We have moved less frequently changed options to advanced sections, we have replaced obtuse configuration options with useful, plain descriptions and we have tried to simplify presentation as much as possible. We have removed the abundance of options that confuse and created more interpretive commands that set options for you so you don’t have the burden of understanding each and every MPP micro feature. I hope that you will check this out and give us your feedback. If you have tried MPP in the past and found it to be a lot to comprehend I hope that you will give us a second look. Having a powerful and versatile product is a blessing and a curse for the end-user, but I think we are more of the former now.