E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting

Jeff WilliamsOctober 8, 2009

Degraded IMAP service

– 9/14 Amethyst 11:46am - 12:17pm (31min) Sapphire 3:07pm - 3:12pm (5min)

– 9/16 Amethyst 10:13 - 11:07, 3:50pm -

3:53pm– 9/21

Amethyst 10:15am - 12:56pm (161min)– 10/5, 10/6

Sapphire 2min x 2 (4min)

Degraded service

Listserv – 9/29 Mail delays due to high traffic

especially between 10am and 4pm

– 10/6 Web front end some unavailability

Degraded service

Mail delays due to antivirus scanning– only one server of 9 servers each

time 9/14 up to 42min 9/16 up to 17min 9/18 up to 22min 9/21 up to 22min 10/1 up to 15min

E-mail Server Upgrades 6 New T5240s are being installed

– Replace remaining T2000s with T5240s

– Greater CPU capacity, double the RAM

– Still need SAN connections on some– Expedited setup to help with Google

opt-in

Gophermail 1 removal

Gophermail 2 to replace GM1– GM2 to listen on port 443 and 4443– GM1 will be removed from

mail.umn.edu page prior to the change

– Targeting the end of fall semester

Autofiling Sent, Trash

Autofiling Trash underway – nightly 6pm-6am + weekends

Autofiling Sent Mail starts tonight– nightly 6pm-6am + weekends

Policy Changes

Emptying Trash over 30 days old– Targeting 2nd week of Spring

Semester

Google Apps for the University of Minnesota Opt-in available late Fall 2009 OIT, IT Directors starting to opt-in Web Site http://www.oit.umn.edu/google-initiative/

Direct questions to gpilot@umn.edu

Bits ‘n’ Bytes

No backups allowed weekdays 9am-5pm

Signed up to get Google Wave for our Google Apps test domain when it first rolls out

‘Till next month…

Google Project gpilot@umn.edu

Jeff Williams jtw@umn.edu 612-625-9227

Internet Services is@umn.edu