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

2. Daily Article on Junk Mail Article about stopping junk e-mail: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006 /02/02/66931 Article about stopping junk e-mail: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006 /02/02/66931 http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006 /02/02/66931 http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2006 /02/02/66931

3. Equipment Moves/Upgrades Moves from CHRC to St. Paul: Moves from CHRC to St. Paul: –Diamond moved last week –Ruby is moving this week SAN upgrades: SAN upgrades: –Amethyst is now on the new SAN –Emerald has to be upgraded soon Handled load of 1 st week of class great Handled load of 1 st week of class great

4. Inbox Auto-Filing X-IMAP and X-IMAPbase headers were lost for inboxes auto-filed prior to 2/1 X-IMAP and X-IMAPbase headers were lost for inboxes auto-filed prior to 2/1 As of 2/1, IMAP properties are now preserved in inboxes As of 2/1, IMAP properties are now preserved in inboxes Thunderbird users using labels will no longer see them disappear Thunderbird users using labels will no longer see them disappear

5. New Block Reasons PRV PRV –Indicates a “protocol violation” during SMTP transaction –MTA used a bad HELO, or commands were sent before greeting message –Used to appear on block list as VIR USR USR –Indicates a user-selected block by domain or e-mail address (see next slide)

6. Allowed/Denied Sender Lists (effective 1/26) Allowed Sender List is the new name for the Exceptions List Allowed Sender List is the new name for the Exceptions List Denied Sender List allows user-selectable blocking Denied Sender List allows user-selectable blocking E-mail addresses and/or domains can be added to either list (up to 30 in each) E-mail addresses and/or domains can be added to either list (up to 30 in each) Matches are made against SMTP FROM (“Return- Path:”), not RFC-822 “From:” Matches are made against SMTP FROM (“Return- Path:”), not RFC-822 “From:” Cannot block umn.edu addresses! Cannot block umn.edu addresses! http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/etc/allowed-senders- faq.html http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/etc/allowed-senders- faq.html http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/etc/allowed-senders- faq.html http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/etc/allowed-senders- faq.html

7. Real Life Example of Denied Senders List Denying: Denying: –gmail.com –hotmail.co.uk –hotmail.com –hotmail.fr –mail.ru Allowing: Allowing: –friend@hotmail.com –msn.com –sympatico.ca –tin.it –virgilio.it –yahoo.com

8. Spam Reporting Report-As-Spam page now references new e-mail addresses for Hotmail/MSN Report-As-Spam page now references new e-mail addresses for Hotmail/MSN –report_spam@hotmail.com –report_spam@msn.com

9. Filing spam to a Folder Turn on SpamAssassin filtering in your incoming mail control settings Turn on SpamAssassin filtering in your incoming mail control settings Set up your e-mail client to filter to a “spam” folder based on this header: Set up your e-mail client to filter to a “spam” folder based on this header: Subject: *****SPAM***** To file messages which would normally be blocked, change your incoming mail controls to allow ALL e-mail and filter on this header: To file messages which would normally be blocked, change your incoming mail controls to allow ALL e-mail and filter on this header: X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [B] Viruses will continue to be discarded Viruses will continue to be discarded

15. Phase-out of clear-text passwords All users have been converted! All users have been converted! Final target: unauthenticated SMTP gateway Final target: unauthenticated SMTP gateway

17. Top 10 Unauthenticated SMTP gateway departments 1. cidrap.umn.edu (6874) 2. morris.umn.edu (5630) 3. csom.umn.edu (4621) 4. oit.umn.edu (2719) 5. {lib,libpub,libstaff}.umn.edu (2325) 6. ahc.umn.edu (2048) 7. pharmacy.umn.edu (1061) 8. micro.umn.edu (807) 9. spa.umn.edu (352) 10. dehs.umn.edu (348)

18. Bits ‘N Bytes New web form for registering to use relay.tc.umn.edu : http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/relay New web form for registering to use relay.tc.umn.edu : http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/relay http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/relay Kerberos v5-1.4.3 installed for AD project Kerberos v5-1.4.3 installed for AD project 30% of Webmail Pro users are now using Webmail 3.0 30% of Webmail Pro users are now using Webmail 3.0 GopherMail Demo GopherMail Demo

19. ‘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