Technical Coordinators Meeting Jeff Williams August 13, 2009

Outages 8/5 – –Garnet IMAP outage 9 minutes – –POP and local clients unaffected 8/11 – –Aquamarine 9:52-10:11am intermittent – –Amethyst 9:18-10:37am intermittent – –Existing connections unaffected

Server Upgrades New hardware on order New hardware on order –Replace remaining T2000s with T5240s –Greater CPU capacity, double the RAM

Policy Changes Autofile Sent Mail, Trash Monthly Autofile Sent Mail, Trash Monthly –Like INBOX, into folders in AutoFiled:2001.sent, 2002.sent, etc –Frees up space on fastest storage –More efficient incremental backups

Policy Changes Message size limit - 25MB vs 100MB Message size limit - 25MB vs 100MB –Same as Google Mail policy –Encourages use of NetFiles / Google Docs –Improves performance –Definition of 25MB

Proposed Policy Changes Autofiling Policies - 60 days vs 90 Autofiling Policies - 60 days vs 90 –Save space on fastest storage –Improves performance –Not changing at this time

Procedure Changes Outbound limit recipients/day Outbound limit recipients/day –Thwart phishers spamming from UMN –Reduce our chances of getting blocked –If over 2000, white listed or acct. closed (if sending spam) Mail login limit times/day Mail login limit times/day –Once per 3min = 480 times –Increase performance for well-behaved –If over 500, ed suggesting fixes

Google Apps for the University of Minnesota Opt-in available during Fall 2009 Opt-in available during Fall 2009 Web Site initiative/ Web Site initiative/ initiative/ initiative/ Direct questions to Direct questions to

Bits ‘n’ Bytes Google Wave demo

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