Smartermail 9 support

Question

version 9 of Smartermail is out... any updates to when WSP will support newer versions of smartermail?

Answer 1

I haven't tried with v9 but make sure you have WSP 1.2 installed. WSP support up to v7 as in their supported software but if you have previously installed v7 or prior to that and upgraded to v8, you should have no issues running v9 as well as there's not much changes on the SM API side on v9.

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Answer 2

The last I looked there was some code for SmarterMail 9. For some odd reason version 8 was skipped. I have been watching this myself and hope that there is a point release with the current updated releases soon.

Answer 3

The last I looked there was some code for SmarterMail 9. For some odd reason version 8 was skipped. I have been watching this myself and hope that there is a point release with the current updated releases soon.

Oh! Forgot to mention that was on the developers side. As of 1.2.0 release there is only support upto v7 and a hack for v8.

Answer 4

I haven't tried with v9 but make sure you have WSP 1.2 installed. WSP support up to v7 as in their supported software but if you have previously installed v7 or prior to that and upgraded to v8, you should have no issues running v9 as well as there's not much changes on the SM API side on v9.

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However, for the few of us that didnt know about WSP until now, its a little to late. For example I was already on v8 for a year before I come across this app.

Answer 5

Hello,

we didn't run an extensive set of testing on SM9 installation yet however we have attempted to install it and have WSP to detect SM9 on a test server and it looked fine so far. We assume that provider you can find on "official" Codeplex page would be the one which will be included in WSP 1.2.1 or 1.3 or whatever number new version will have. As usual, this solution is provided without ANY guarantee and, as said, we didn't run an extensive set of testing yet so something might not work. Use at your own risk.

Please also consider that you will need to modify your main WSP database and that could affect future upgrades. Use at your own risk !

 

What you would need to do is :

* download latest WSP code from Codeplex;

* compile project for SmarterMail9 provider (you should be able to just compile it, no changes should be needed);

* place this new DLL inside "bin" folder of your WSP Server installation where SM9 is located. You don't need to upload to other servers, including Enterprise Server;

* add a new row to "Providers" table in your WSP database. That row should use the same values as for SM7, except for target class name. For example our new row looks like this:

ProviderID GroupID ProviderName DisplayName ProviderType EditorControl DisableAutoDiscovery
402 4 SmarterMail SmarterMail 9.x WebsitePanel.Providers.Mail.SmarterMail9, WebsitePanel.Providers.Mail.SmarterMail9 SmarterMail60 NULL 

As usual, perform a backup of your database before applying any change, just in case.

Once you do this, WSP should be able to detect and configure SM9. We're also able to assign to existing hosting plans and to create domains and mailboxes.

However, you won't have any access to SM features which were not available in v7.0.

Remember that :

* you are using this solution at your own risk;

* altering database might prevent a straightforward upgrade to new version, once available;

* you need to backup your database before altering it;

 

If anything goes wrong, you should be able to rollback to previous status by :

* deleting any server/service in WSP which was configured for SM9;

* removing row you added to "Providers" table;

* removing WebsitePanel.Providers.Mail.SmarterMail9 DLL from "bin" folder on target server.

 

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

so is it supported or not? codeplex issue (Item # 36) says that it is supported but this thread says that it might be with a hack. We would really like to upgrade to SM9 but I don't want to do it if I'm going to loose my integration with WSP.

Answer 7

Has anyone compiled the Smartermail 9 provider module yet or is it available anywhere?

 

Thanks!

Answer 8

This is open source software so actually there are no guarantee for anything. SmarterMail 9 module was made by me for myself but I've decided to upload it as a fork and thats all. If you afraid to use it then create some testing environment and do some testing there before running it in production environment.

Answer 9

For us SQL nuubies, would some kind person explain how to add the row using MS 2008 Express Management Tools..

would be much appreciated.

Answer 10

I think it's better to wait for 1.2.1 final. If you want to try, just install v1.2.1BETA which have been released yesterday or so. That version is not recommended for production use, though.

Hope this helps.

Answer 11

Hi and thanks for your suggestion.

Can the beta be updated to release or is it a complete uninstall cycle?

Sounds like good timing...time to get installing ;-)

Many thanks indeed

Lea

Answer 12

1.2.1 installed and running, looking good so far :)