Technical Coordinators Meeting Steve Siirila Brian Hayden Jeff Williams June 11, 2008
Outages None!
New Hardware 3 Sun T5240 servers – –2 CPUs w/ 64 threads each – –Additional IMAP/POP service capacity 1 Sun X4500 server – –48TB raw capacity – –To mirror current archive storage used for infrequently used folders
Anti-Virus/Phish Filtering ClamAV filtering in place since 5/6 for all central NAI filtering to be shut off 7/1
Spam Filtering SpamAssassin installed 5/20 – –Fixed to properly detect end of message Investigating: – –Wider use of SA for detection of spear phishing – –Making SA opt-out instead of opt-in – –Improving spam reporting methods
GopherMail Update UTF-8 (International character set) support New “web service” API allowing an application to populate an iframe or similar (unsupported until late summer) Apache-like virtual host capability Folder sidebar Optional Javascript panes for preferences, advanced search, adding contacts Per-user/session mobile and accessible "meta- views", separate from themes Paging view replaced with Recent, Unread, and All views (emphasize Search)
Gophermail Update (cont) Trash model option for message deletion Role selection on compose screen List screen message deletion via button rather than dropdown Folders page: directory contents expanded on current page instead of a new page Folders page: creating subfolders can now be done from an explicit widget under each directory Message list, message display, and Contacts screens now have a fixed header and individually scrolling sidebar Toolbar search inset: replaced "To" with "Recipients" to also search “Cc” field
GopherMail Update (cont) Beta starting 6/16 with inviting -l users and helpline One week later general community invited to beta test
Bits ‘n’ Bytes Autoreply alias support added 6/9 Aphelion LDAP directory updated to latest supported version 6/9 Phasing out CRAM-MD5 authentication method soon
‘Till next month… Jeff Williams Jeff Williams Internet Services Internet Services Steve Siirila Steve Siirila Brian Hayden Brian Hayden