E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila April 13, 2005

E-mail Hardware Fully migrated E-mail servers from CLARiiON to DMX SAN frames All E-mail servers are now back in service: 6 client/server 1 premium/interactive 1 client/server (Morris)

X.500 Directory Hardware Completing upgrade of front-end X.500 servers from 6 Netra X1 to 3 V440s in next week or two Received hardware for future back-end directory servers (4 V210s)

Spam/Virus Filtering SMTP server now treats temporary DNS errors as “Host not found” after 24 hours, for up to 7 days Subscribed to Spamhaus SBL/XBL rsync feed, allowing for localized queries

Departmental MTA Registration MTAs and other devices which are using the relay.tc.umn.edu service must register to guarantee uninterrupted service Send IP address, type of device, and contact information to isgroup@umn.edu Includes the relay-by-IP service (currently 160.94.160.49) As of 4/13, 55 IP addresses have been registered by 15 different departments

Phase-out of clear-text passwords Next general mailings will be sent out over the next few weeks Last FTP mailing went out Jan 26th and is expected to go out again in late May or early June

Weak Internet Passwords Letters continue to go out to users with weak passwords Currently only going out to users who have not changed passwords since Jan. 15

MMP Evaluation Will be upgrading to MMP during Summer 2005 Obsoletes current MTA product (Mail*Hub 2000) Obsoletes current X.500 directory product (GDS 2003)

Lyris Full production effective March 17th Lyris upgraded to version 8.1, fixing a problem with large mailings hanging

‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts cab@umn.edu 612-625-1809 Steve Siirila sfs@umn.edu 612-626-0244