The Perl libraries need to get changed in the Config file, and all
scripts, and then all of the scripts need to be enabled on for the
menus, in the config file Not a simple upgrade that you want to do
every week

Not quite true - you can plop the Admin Menu stuff in the outside
config file, ala:

[snip]

$S_PROGRAM_URL = $PROGRAM_URL; my $PLUGIN_URL = $S_PROGRAM_URL; $PLUGIN_URL =~ s/mail cgi$//; $PLUGIN_URL = 'plugins'; my $EXT_URL = $PLUGIN_URL; $EXT_URL =~ s/plugins/extensions/;

$ADMIN_MENU ||= [

# 


 a whole bunch 'o stuff

];

[/snip]

Yeah, you gotta change it when new plugins/extensions comes out and
that is a pain, but for bug fix releases, this should work Speaking
of which, that's one of the values of a bug fix only release

Another option is to have all the thingies on the admin menu sort of
self-register themselves, so if you have, say, "dada_bridge pl" in
the, "plugins" directory, it'll automatically show up That would be
nice

Another option would be a full-blown installer script, which would be
nice, but again, Yet Another Project for Justin :) Along with a,
"through the web browser" install, like Joomla has, you can also make
a Perlish makefile type deal, using something like this:

http://search
cpan
org/~adamk/Task-1
01/lib/Task
pm

The other problem is setting the Perl libraries in a script like
dada_bridge pl This has to be done, since the cronjob is run in a
different environment than when you run the program through the web
browser - I don't know what a better workaround is for that
(completely), but there is a way to just have the cronjob run
dada_bridge pl as if it was doing so in the web env:

http://mojo
skazat
com/support/documentation/ 

dada_bridge pl html#setting_the_cronjob_the__easy_way

Which means you don't have to set the Perl libraries Nothing to stop
me doing this for the bounce handler, scheduled mailer, or anything
else (the auto_pickup pl proggy also already does this)

You shouldn't have to ever set the Perl library path in the Config pm
file - never seen that required, is that something you've have to do?

I understand that it's still completely annoying to download,
uncompress, upload install/configure a dada mail for testing But,
just running the test suite and reporting back on any problems would
be a huge world of good

If anyone needs help doing that for the next release, let me know