We plan to install some critical updates to the webmail system. During the outage users will not be able to access webmail, though the email system will be otherwise unaffected and users accessing their email with desktop clients will not be affected.
Category Archives: Email
Mail Server Queue Stuck
Email messages are not being delievered in a timely manner. Messages are not lost, simply delayed.
Webmail: Version Upgrade
Responding to complaints from users we upgraded the Webmail server software from version 1.4.0 to 1.4.2. The new version is a bug-fix release and ads no new features. The upgrade went smoothly.
Webmail: Replace SSL Certificate
The SSL certificate that allows secure transactions on Webmail expires and needs to be replaced. The process was quick and painless.
EMail Temporary Failure
Inbound and Outbound email messages were temporarily suspended when a file system on one of the servers became full.
All messages remained in queue and should have been released when the corrections were made about 3pm.
1 Hr EMail Servers Outage – Security Update
Several security updates and one hardware firmware update need to be applied to the EMU web server.
Info Systems will be taking the EMU email servers (http://mail.emu.edu) off-line early Fri morning, 11/21, to perform these updates.
The process should be completed in less than one hour.
This outage will be occurring at the same time as an outage for the BlackBoard server for the similar work.
Webmail server unresponsive
The webmail server became unresponsive around 3pm. The mail server was unaffected, no mail was lost, and service was restored quickly.
1 Hour EMail Server Outage for Server Changes
Several hardware configuration changes are needed to simplify the way mail is handled and secured on the EMU email servers. These changes will require about 1 hour of down time and will begin at 6:30am.
During this time no one will be able to access email, however, and all incoming and outgoing email will be held in queue until the servers are all placed back on line.
Mail server outage
A software bug in a RAID controller manager created a misconfiguration of the server that resulted in downtime.
Email Server Issues
Users will not be able to login.