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This email provides information on recent e-mail outages and changes to autofiled storage. It also highlights a workaround for clients experiencing namespace issues and discusses the upcoming LISTSERV upgrade.
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E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Dec 12, 2007
E-mail Outages • Nov 29 1339-1415 (36min) • Network outage affecting DataCenter • Dec 3 1335-1344 (9min) • diamond (immediately followed network outage) • Dec 5 1723-1735 (12min) • peridot (QFS clustering performance issues) • Dec 11 1335-1404 (29min) • diamond (Intermittent service, capacity issue)
Autofiled storage Autofiled folders moved to less expensive and slower storage Using IMAP namespaces to present AutoFiled folders Some clients cannot use namespaces correctly Workaround: Use GopherMail to access AutoFiled folders Allows us to resume mass AutoFiling
Server-side Filtering • Forwarding to multiple recipients • Supports comma separated addresses: user1@umn.edu, user2@umn.edu, user3@umn.edu • Also consider other methods: • Shared folders • LISTSERV • Many other changes – please try it out
UMCal Archiving • Will expire data yearly, keeping one year • Thus 1-2 years of data available • Older data kept at least 5-7 years • Can be made available on request • Possible future enhancement: make old data available read-only via web • Necessary for performance reasons
Bits ‘n’ Bytes • LISTSERV upgrade coming soon
Chris Bongaarts cab@umn.edu 612-625-1809 Steve Siirila sfs@umn.edu 612-626-0244 Internet Services isgroup@umn.edu ‘Till next month…