1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting
Chris Bongaarts
Steve Siirila
October 12, 2005

2. Spam Reporting
Added new spam reporting method, primarily for hotmail.com servers
36,375 spam reports from users last month
100,160 spam reports from SpamAssassin runs last month

7. Inbox Auto-Filing Started sending warning letters 9/18
Auto-filed mail is put into a folder named “AutoFiled” within the user’s “mail” folder in their home directory
Of 14,000 eligible mailboxes:
5,249 warning letters have been sent
2,610 have been auto-filed
Auto-filing 600 users/day

8. Phase-out of clear-text passwords
5,800 users remain insecure:
388 forced to secure servers
2,850 warned they will be forced secure in one week
Moving users at a rate of 200 per day to secure servers
New definition of “secured”
No insecure accesses for 60 days
1,200 users newly considered “secured”

13. Outgoing SMTP Issues
Will be restricting smtp.umn.edu services to central users only
OIT Security will be scanning servers authorized for relay.tc.umn.edu
Timeline for smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu service phase-out approx. 1Q2006

15. Aphelion Directory
2 LDAP directory engine (LDE) servers now actively kept up-to-date
Awaiting updates for finer access control
Application conversion in progress (to use LDAP instead of ComDUA/DISH)
Application testing continues

16. Bits ‘n’ Bytes
reporting on block lists coming in next couple weeks
PKI pilot wrapped up, final report in progress
Redundant Kerberos server builds and AD testing underway

17. Premium Interactive E-mail Accounts
Interactive (shell) access (e.g. pine, elm, bash, tcsh, msh, screen, irc, etc.)
Extended filesystem quotas
Web CGI
Home for 3,000 accounts

18. Discussion topic: Port 25 Blocking
Should we?
From where?
Everywhere?
Dynamic/dialup only?
Wireless only?
To where?
Non-UMN only?
Whitelist of OK MTAs?
Who would complain?
Visiting faculty sending via home institution (should use 587)

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