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Just tried to get our sysadmin to import the OVF into Vsphere 4.1. The error Unable to parse the OVF file occurs and it won't import.

The hardware version from the OVF file is 8
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=1003746

This means only the following versions are supported:
- ESXi 5.x
- Fusion 4.x
- Workstation 8.x
- Player 4.x

Your sysadmin can use vmware converter to change the OVF file to the older VMware 4.1 format.

I will keep this in mind and will create the 0.3 version with Hardware version 7 so older versions of vmware are still supported.

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Thanks man! I'll let him know about converting. Do you have a roadmap for 0.3?

Not really a roadmap but I expect to have 0.3 available within a month or so.
mostly small bugfixes and stability issies I found in 0.2 no major new features yet

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Do you think 0.2 is good enough for a production environment? BTW, did the steps in the looping post make sense?

I am currently running it in production, and I know some others that also use it in production so it seems stable enough
I would recommend having some linux & mailscanner knowledge/experience before using it in a production environment as it is a new project I can't guarantee a flawless product.

(My current most busy system processes about 15000 messages a day and still havn' t found any critical bugs)

Your post made sense, I will take a look at it later on to see if i can reproduce and try to fix it.

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Thanks man!

Linux knowledge no problemo but mailscanner is new (to me). I shall read up some more. Ideally, we'd have a web frontended mail scanning appliance that generally doesn't need any messing around with the console as my time there is limited so it would be day-to-day administrated by people without experience. I probably made things worse taking the Postfix fixes learned from Zimbra over to EFA - I just didn't want to be in the postion of loosing any mail because the Exchange box wasn't playing ball.

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I just tried to install this into our main esx environment which is 4.x. I was on a 4.0.0 server and I got this error:
I tried to change the line manually and it said the file was invalid. I'm thinking the ovf file is signed? Not sure.

We have a dev environment with esx 5 which I will install on for now.

I believe that you need ESX 5 for VMX-8 hardware.

I added a note to the download page that the current VMware build requires ESX 5 or higher.
A next build will be done using a lower hardware number so ESX 4 is also supported.

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