1. E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila January 10, 2007

2. T2000 Deployment Sun T2000 deployments: Sun T2000 deployments: –aquamarine –diamond –ruby –topaz Prior hardware re-purposed for GopherMail and UMCal servers Prior hardware re-purposed for GopherMail and UMCal servers

3. Dovecot Testing E-mail server has been in production use for several weeks E-mail server topaz has been in production use for several weeks Issues: Issues: –Oracle Connector for Outlook (resolved) –Connection limits Configuration change (self-imposed limits) Configuration change (self-imposed limits) File descriptor limit (per-process) File descriptor limit (per-process) Solaris-specific STDIO issue with fd > 255 Solaris-specific STDIO issue with fd > 255 –Outstanding crash issue related to mbox sync

4. Listserv Upgrade Upgraded to Listserv 15.0 on 1/9 Upgraded to Listserv 15.0 on 1/9 Visible changes to web interface: Visible changes to web interface: –Persistent personal preferences –List archive management –Archives display full HTML in messages –Much more Listserv can now reference mailing list members from an external database Listserv can now reference mailing list members from an external database

7. Spam Control Upcoming changes: Upcoming changes: –Block sites using invalid HELO host names (e.g. names without at least one ‘.’) –Validation of user-entered allow/deny addresses (e.g. cannot start with ‘@’; domain must exist) –Spam report pages to include abuse addresses from contacts.abuse.net –Report-as-good to include a confirmation screen –Use of new Spamhaus PBL –Upgrading to SpamAssassin 3.1.7

13. Bits ‘N Bytes Internet password expiration warning e-mail sent out to OIT staff Internet password expiration warning e-mail sent out to OIT staff

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