1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila March 9, 2005

2. E-mail Outages Performance issues on email servers caused some brief outages Performance issues on email servers caused some brief outages All Twin Cities email servers are now SAN-connected All Twin Cities email servers are now SAN-connected Continuing to migrate from CLARiiON to DMX SAN frames Continuing to migrate from CLARiiON to DMX SAN frames SSL accelerator cards configured SSL accelerator cards configured

3. Spam/Virus Filtering Virus definitions now updated at least once daily (instead of weekly) Virus definitions now updated at least once daily (instead of weekly) Upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.0.2 Upgraded to SpamAssassin 3.0.2

7. Departmental MTA Registration MTAs and other devices which are using the relay.tc.umn.edu service must register MTAs and other devices which are using the relay.tc.umn.edu service must register –Send IP address, type of device, and contact information to isgroup@umn.edu Includes the relay-by-IP service (currently 160.94.160.49) Includes the relay-by-IP service (currently 160.94.160.49) Unregistered MTAs will be denied access starting July 5 th Unregistered MTAs will be denied access starting July 5 th

8. Phase-out of clear-text passwords Next general mailings will be sent out on April 12 th, 19 th, and 26 th Next general mailings will be sent out on April 12 th, 19 th, and 26 th Last FTP mailing went out Jan 26 th Last FTP mailing went out Jan 26 th Webmail only uses SSL connections for central email access Webmail only uses SSL connections for central email access IMAP statistics correction; includes SSL connections via port 143 (STARTTLS) IMAP statistics correction; includes SSL connections via port 143 (STARTTLS)

16. MMP Evaluation Will be upgrading to MMP during Summer 2005 Will be upgrading to MMP during Summer 2005 Obsoletes current MTA product (Mail*Hub 2000) Obsoletes current MTA product (Mail*Hub 2000) Obsoletes current X.500 directory product (GDS 2001) Obsoletes current X.500 directory product (GDS 2001)

17. Lyris Full production mode scheduled for March 17 th Full production mode scheduled for March 17 th Contact U Relations for information Contact U Relations for information

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