For some of you who would like to have a look at the kooboo communicator preview, here is a download.

Download the file from: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/...kooboo_communicator.zip

and follows the following steps to install it.

1. Create application

- Unzip files in web\ to the target web application directory.
- Create IIS web site and point to the unzipped directory
- Make sure that IIS user has read and write permission to the application directory

2. Create database

- Create one database in sql server
- Restore from db\db.bak(Backup from SQL 2005) or execute db.sql to create the database schema

3. Modify connection string

- Modify connection string in web.config.

4. Start using Communicator

Your application is ready to use, open your favorite browsers and access the website you created. You will be asked to create the admin user on the first time you run the application.

5. Run the mail delivery service as a Windows Service

By default, mail delivery use "embeded" mode within the IIS process. To run it as a windows service, follows the following steps.

- Disable embeded mode. Locate <kooboo.messaging><service> node in web.config and set "embeded" attribute to "false".

- In the unzipped web application directory, there is a "service" directory, Make sure that IIS user has read/write access to this directory.

- Modify connection string in Communicator.exe.config in the "service" directory.

- Click Service\Install.bat to install the service.

6. Enable content spam check in the Campaign Test Send

To use Spam Assassin content checker to the followings.

- To run it within the web application process, modify web.config and set "spam" attribute to "true" in <kooboo.messaging><service> node.

- To run it within the windows service, modify Service\Communicator.exe.config and set "spam" attribute to "true" in <kooboo.messaging><service> node.