1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila March 8, 2006

2. Equipment Moves/Upgrades Moves from CHRC to St. Paul complete Moves from CHRC to St. Paul complete All client/server e-mail servers are now on the new SAN All client/server e-mail servers are now on the new SAN Morris e-mail server storage upgraded Morris e-mail server storage upgraded

3. Stronger Internet Passwords May not contain all or any 3 character part of the user's account name May not contain all or any 3 character part of the user's account name Must have characters from 3 of 4 sets: Must have characters from 3 of 4 sets: –Upper case –Lower case –Digits –Non-alphanumeric Needed to sync passwords with coordinate campuses Needed to sync passwords with coordinate campuses

4. SpamAssassin Upgrade Upgraded from 3.0.2 to 3.1.0 on 2/23 Upgraded from 3.0.2 to 3.1.0 on 2/23 Fixed to eliminate erroneous false positives on 2/24 Fixed to eliminate erroneous false positives on 2/24 Now identifies more spam Now identifies more spam

5. Listserv Problem Listserv configuration problem 3/2 Listserv configuration problem 3/2 Between 3/2 and 3/7: Between 3/2 and 3/7: –500+ delayed messages –200+ dropped messages –Out of about 24,000 total messages

11. Phase-out of unauthenticated SMTP Shutting off smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu Shutting off smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu –End users (e.g. dialup) on 3/20 –Servers/devices on 3/27 Last week Last week –278 end users –169 servers/devices All parties notified by e-mail 2/22 All parties notified by e-mail 2/22

13. U-wide Certificate Authority Should we run one? Should we run one? Pros Pros –Can issue lots of certs at minimal cost –Trust 1 CA cert, not lots of individual server certs Cons Cons –Root cert import required –How trustworthy are we anyway?

14. Bits ‘N Bytes GopherMail in final testing GopherMail in final testing

15. ‘Till next month… Steve Siirila Steve Siirila sfs@umn.edu sfs@umn.edu 612-626-0244 612-626-0244 Chris Bongaarts Chris Bongaarts cab@umn.edu cab@umn.edu 612-625-1809 612-625-1809