Plesk 9 beta is out

exi1ed0ne · Unread post by **exi1ed0ne** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:50 pm

For your testing pleasure:

http://www.parallels.com/download/plesk9beta/

Yeah, still Qmail. I'm honestly not even surprised anymore.

Kalimari · Unread post by **Kalimari** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:48 pm

Thanks for info/link exi1ed0ne,

Reading down the page I noticed under point 5. What's New:

3. Postfix Support - Postfix mail server is finally available to all Plesk for Unix/Linux users. The long-awaited support of immensely popular alternative to Qmail allows Plesk administrators to improve the stability, security and performance of all mail-related tasks. Switching from Qmail to Postfix is quick, effortless and transparent both to Plesk administrator and end-users.

Then spotted under point 7. Known Problems and Limitations:

Postfix Mail Server functionality is not available in Plesk 9 Beta.

Go figure...

exi1ed0ne · Unread post by **exi1ed0ne** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:00 pm

Yeah, missed that. There was also another thread talking about it in Sept. that mentioned the same thing. Looks like I need to read before posting!

Still, it is rather strange that they wouldn't include it in a beta release. That seems fairly important to test, and it makes me feel like it won't be ready for prime time until v. 10 at the earliest. Here's to hoping it isn't horribly broken like the DomainKeys implementation is.

Unread post by **scott** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:41 pm

Same applies for @mail

laughingbuddha · Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:33 am

Yeah Scott, I noticed that they are going to implement webmail via horde or @mail.

Hopefully that will be server side, as I'm getting mighty fed-up with horde. There was a user on the Plesk forums that was designing a skin system for horde within plesk.

Thinking of chucking together a spare box as I have enough parts kicking about the office for god knows how many systems, and loading it on or a giggle.

Is there any idea of a release date?

Matt

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:06 am

laughingbuddha wrote:Yeah Scott, I noticed that they are going to implement webmail via horde or @mail.

Hopefully that will be server side, as I'm getting mighty fed-up with horde.

How would it not be server side? Are you afraid your clients will need to install a web server and webmail client on their own machines?

laughingbuddha · Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:21 am

I was under the impression that @mail runs a webmail service.

Also I didn't know there was an open source version of @mail. Not a simple thing to find on there main website. Funny that.

Matt

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:44 am

I played with the fcgi stuff too, I can confirm that it works as advertised. I'm not sure about using it on a system with a lot of domains though. Or at least if you do make sure you've got a lot of ram for it.

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:43 am

laughingbuddha wrote:I was under the impression that @mail runs a webmail service.

Also I didn't know there was an open source version of @mail. Not a simple thing to find on there main website. Funny that.

They have both a hosted service and software you can run yourself. I don't believe there is an open source version of @mail, but there are more Plesk components that aren't open source (including Plesk itself).

laughingbuddha · Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:45 pm

Yeah there is an open-source @mail, you can find it at atmail.org

According to an old post on the plesk forums, the scheduled release period is 4th quarter or 2008, so hopefully it won't be long.

Is there going to be ART support for Plesk 9 scott and when it's formaly released will it be added to your yum channel for install?

Matt

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:48 pm

Yeah I did set up a beta channel just for C5-i386 here:

http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/chann ... os/5/i386/

and before you ask. No.

laughingbuddha · Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:45 pm

No what, I said nothing