1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting
Chris Bongaarts
Steve Siirila
April 13, 2005

2. Hardware
Fully migrated servers from CLARiiON to DMX SAN frames
All servers are now back in service:
6 client/server
1 premium/interactive
1 client/server (Morris)

3. X.500 Directory Hardware
Completing upgrade of front-end X.500 servers from 6 Netra X1 to 3 V440s in next week or two
Received hardware for future back-end directory servers (4 V210s)

4. Spam/Virus Filtering
SMTP server now treats temporary DNS errors as “Host not found” after 24 hours, for up to 7 days
Subscribed to Spamhaus SBL/XBL rsync feed, allowing for localized queries

9. Departmental MTA Registration
MTAs and other devices which are using the relay.tc.umn.edu service must register to guarantee uninterrupted service
Send IP address, type of device, and contact information to
Includes the relay-by-IP service (currently )
As of 4/13, 55 IP addresses have been registered by 15 different departments

10. Phase-out of clear-text passwords
Next general mailings will be sent out over the next few weeks
Last FTP mailing went out Jan 26th and is expected to go out again in late May or early June

16. Weak Internet Passwords
Letters continue to go out to users with weak passwords
Currently only going out to users who have not changed passwords since Jan. 15

17. MMP Evaluation Will be upgrading to MMP during Summer 2005
Obsoletes current MTA product (Mail*Hub 2000)
Obsoletes current X.500 directory product (GDS 2003)

18. Lyris Full production effective March 17th
Lyris upgraded to version 8.1, fixing a problem with large mailings hanging

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