1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting
Chris Bongaarts
October 8, 2008

2. Outages Intermittent IMAP/POP trouble on diamond, opal, and peridot
Trouble establishing new connections
Existing connections work but more slowly
Gophermail outage 9/22
Reached capacity on all servers
Raised resource limits and upgraded hardware to get more capacity

3. Server Upgrades
3 Sun V890 servers repurposed as new Gophermail servers
3 Sun V440 servers repurposed as new outbound MTA servers
One in production on 9/22 for relay
Others ready but load balancer issues may cause us to change our approach
3 Sun V210 servers to be repurposed as additional inbound MTA servers

4. UMCal Service IP changing to 134.84.119.44 on 10/19
Need to get off old unsupported load balancers
Will use shared-IP failover since application requires manual failover
Web client auth timeout increased to 8 hours on 10/2

5. Phishing Phished accounts being used to send out spam via Gophermail
Currently closing accounts and blocking access to Gophermail
Looking at faster/better detection methods

14. Bits ‘n’ Bytes
Internet Services moves to WBOB on 10/17

15. ‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts cab@umn.edu 612-625-1809
Internet Services