1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts July 9, 2008

2. Outages Authenticated SMTP – –6/29 10pm – 6/30 5pm: authentication failures – –Extensive writeup on EMAIL-L – see list archives for details

3. Outages WBOB power failure – –7/1 morning: fire in electrical room at WBOB – –11:58am power surge caused reboots of most WBOB servers – –Affected about 40% of email users, UMCal, LISTSERV – –Interactive email server (garnet) needs downtime to clean up (TBA)

4. Outages Web Hotel – –7/2: 3 min. outage due to memory error/reboot – –Memory swap 7/6 unsuccessful – –Will retry in a week or two

5. GopherMail Beta Beta testing in progress – –https://gophermail.umn.edu:4443/https://gophermail.umn.edu:4443/ Planned go-live date: 7/21

6. Anti-Virus/Phish Filtering NAI shut off on all servers by 7/3 ClamAV now exclusive virus/phish scanner

8. Spear Phishing Mitigation Watermark “official” email – –Unforgeable header – –Gophermail will display message with “official” indication – –Maybe have GM indication for “local” Maybe make SpamAssassin opt-out instead of opt-in – –Depends on system capacity

9. Spear Phishing Mitigation Allow OITSEC better tools for quicker blocking/reporting on replies Helpline examining user education possibilities

17. Bits ‘n’ Bytes UMN is now a member of the InCommon Federation – –http://www.incommonfederation.orghttp://www.incommonfederation.org

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