This is the first SmarterMail beta I’ve participated in. So I’m a little unfamiliar with the process. But it seems to me there isn’t a formal process. SmarterTools makes SmarterTrack, and has a ticket system, but neither seems to be in play. Bug reports are anecdotal comments in threads and response from SmarterTools seems a little random and arbitrary. Maybe it’s just that I’m doing it wrong.
Is there a plan for scheduling beta releases? Have release notes come out yet? (I recall they were planned). Can / should we submit tickets if we find something that seems particularly important?
In any case, I have two servers running on VMs, one running with SmarterMail’s built in web server, and the other running NGINX. The first one only gets an A on ssllabs, an HSTS issue that SmarterTools is on. The nginx install does get an A+. But I haven’t set up certbot for that one yet. I’m not sure if automatic certificates will work with nginx, but I’m currently using CTW on a windows machine with CTW’s nginx deployment to a remote server. Not working so good yet.
But really my biggest problem so far is training myself to pronounce nginx as “engine-x” instead of “n-jinx”, which is how I first heard it in my head.