Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Jeff Williams November 12, 2008
IMAP/POP Performance Occasional IMAP/POP slowdown on diamond, opal, and peridot – –Only during backups – –Peak usage times Plans for improvement – –Spread storage more equally to allow backups to finish on time – –Upgrading Dovecot
Server Upgrades 3 Sun V440 servers repurposed as new outbound MTA servers – –All in production use by 11/7 3 Sun V210 servers repurposed as additional inbound MTA servers – –All in production use by 11/10
UMCal Service IP changed to on 11/2 – –Now off old unsupported load balancer – –Uses shared-IP failover since application requires manual failover
M Key Moved M Key servers to separate VLAN on 11/10, 11/11, 11/12 Enables use of firewall as required by auditors
Gophermail Gophermail 1 to be decommissioned – –Added options to allow Gophermail 2 to look/work like GM1 “Classic” style to mimic look and feel of GM1 User option for default sort order – –Timeline not final Fixed bug that could cause hangs when international characters used in message headers
Phishing Phished accounts being used to send out spam via Gophermail Phished accounts being used to send out spam via Gophermail Currently closing accounts and blocking access to Gophermail Currently closing accounts and blocking access to Gophermail Looking at faster/better detection methods Looking at faster/better detection methods
“Official” Mail Indicator New feature in Gophermail 2 – –Shows block “M” logo and special message if it came from a list of “official” servers – –Currently only official server is one that sends password expiration notices and “emergency” mailings – –More official servers, other criteria for marking “official” coming
“Official” Mail Indicator Thunderbird (2.0+) plugin – –Shows block “M” logo in header area if message is “official”. Demos
Bits ‘n’ Bytes IS moved to WBOB
‘Till next month… Steve Siirila Steve Siirila Internet Services Internet Services Chris Bongaarts Chris Bongaarts Jeff Williams Jeff Williams