E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts March 12, 2008
AutoFiling Reminder letters sent last week Autofiling will resume next week Will be performed monthly If a user is skipped for a month, they will get a new reminder letter before they are autofiled again
E-mail Software upgrade Recompiled dovecot in 64-bit mode Removes some artificial limits on maximum users logging in at once
Outages Still sporadic slowdowns on diamond Some symptoms fixed by 64-bit dovecot Also problems due to inadequate swap space Working on increasing swap available on all email servers 3/4: garnet accounts moved to client/server that shouldn’t have All moved back by the next day
Future outage Moving power connections will require some downtimes of non-redundant systems: Lyris (ecommunications.umn.edu) Drop box for X.500 feeds Not scheduled yet, but will be before 3/31
Demailization of garnet Plan: keep garnet as interactive login server Move email to client/server Terminal-based clients will use IMAP to access mailbox Procmail users can use Sieve rules May need separate solution for some uses
Demailization of garnet Current user counts: 1523 garnet users 417 not using any garnet features Moving off 60/day to client/server 648 logged in interactively (last 100 days) 407 use procmail to filter mail 223 have CGI scripts
Bits ‘n’ Bytes M Keys: over 3,600 distributed (Peoplesoft cuts over Sunday 3/16) Future possibilities: “autofiling” sent-mail folders; “autoemptying” trash folders
‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts cab@umn.edu 612-625-1809 Internet Services isgroup@umn.edu