Maintenance outage to secure updated OS image.

EMail server taken off-line for to image the system prior to significant diagnostics for some on-going IMAP email problems.

2hr planned outage on mail.emu.edu email server for reconfiguration. Info Systems is in the process of converting to a new email system. This reconfiguration is necessary in order to correct some operational problems we have been having since moving to new email server hardware in March.

The EMU email server became unstable about 5am, Sun, 3/17. A partial correction was made to the server at 2pm 3/17 that may have permitted it to process in-bound mail. Out-bound mail was not corrected until 9:30am, Mon, 3/18.

Reconfiguration of email infrastructure to integrate new mail server hardware. Significant milestone toward implementation of IMAP email which we hope to have implemented fully by July 2002.

One of the EMU Email Servers errored during Sophos email virus definitions update. All mail sent or received between 10:55 and 11:10 was flagged, erroneously, as having a virus and would have been ‘bounced’ back to the sender. If you sent an email during this time period and received a ‘bounce’ message rejecting it because of a ‘virus’, disregard it and send again.