1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Jeff Williams November 12, 2008

2. IMAP/POP Performance Occasional IMAP/POP slowdown on diamond, opal, and peridot – –Only during backups – –Peak usage times Plans for improvement – –Spread storage more equally to allow backups to finish on time – –Upgrading Dovecot

3. Server Upgrades 3 Sun V440 servers repurposed as new outbound MTA servers – –All in production use by 11/7 3 Sun V210 servers repurposed as additional inbound MTA servers – –All in production use by 11/10

4. UMCal Service IP changed to 134.84.119.44 on 11/2 – –Now off old unsupported load balancer – –Uses shared-IP failover since application requires manual failover

5. M Key Moved M Key servers to separate VLAN on 11/10, 11/11, 11/12 Enables use of firewall as required by auditors

6. Gophermail Gophermail 1 to be decommissioned – –Added options to allow Gophermail 2 to look/work like GM1 “Classic” style to mimic look and feel of GM1 User option for default sort order – –Timeline not final Fixed bug that could cause hangs when international characters used in message headers

7. Phishing Phished accounts being used to send out spam via Gophermail Phished accounts being used to send out spam via Gophermail Currently closing accounts and blocking access to Gophermail Currently closing accounts and blocking access to Gophermail Looking at faster/better detection methods Looking at faster/better detection methods

8. “Official” Mail Indicator New feature in Gophermail 2 – –Shows block “M” logo and special message if it came from a list of “official” servers – –Currently only official server is one that sends password expiration notices and “emergency” mailings – –More official servers, other criteria for marking “official” coming

9. “Official” Mail Indicator Thunderbird (2.0+) plugin – –Shows block “M” logo in header area if message is “official”. Demos

19. Bits ‘n’ Bytes IS moved to WBOB

20. ‘Till next month… Steve Siirila Steve Siirila sfs@umn.edu sfs@umn.edu sfs@umn.edu 612-626-0244 612-626-0244 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 Jeff Williams Jeff Williams jtw@umn.edu jtw@umn.edu jtw@umn.edu 612-625-9227 612-625-9227