Even More Amazing OS X Experiences
It sure feels like we are on a roll with our improvements for Mac OS X 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 main 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 OS X customers are either using Postfix or CommuniGate we detect which email server is in use and make all of the appropriate configurations automatically. 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.
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