Mail server maintenance on Wed, Jan 24
Update 07:25 Migration finished, welcome on the new mail server!
We schedule a maintenance downtime for the D-PHYS mail server on
Wednesday, January 24, between 07:00 and 08:00 in the morning
During this period, sending and receiving new emails will have interruptions, thereby delaying incoming and outgoing mails. In particular, incoming external emails will not be lost, but held on the sender's side and will be delivered after the migration. Outgoing mail will be kept in your mail client until the connection is restored. The IMAP server will not be affected, so all email clients should have continuous access to the existing mailboxes.
This maintenance window will be used to migrate the first part of our mail server infrastructure to the latest version of the operating system and new hardware with fast SSD storage.
New location for SpamAssassin user preferences
We re-designed how our mail server is parsing the user's configuration for the spam filtering. Currently one has to edit the hidden text file ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs in the home folder. Starting from next Wednesday the spam filtering rules can be edited more conveniently through the settings in the Webmail interface. This will allow users to easily
- accept mail from a given sender and never mark it as spam (whitelist)
- reject mail from a given sender and always mark it as spam (blacklist)
- set the threshold score required for any message to be considered as spam
The existing user preferences have been parsed and all of the above settings have been imported into the new setup. The contents of ~/.spamassassin/ will be ignored after the migration. Please contact us if you have questions regarding your advanced SpamAssassin rules.
Tags: downtime, interruption, mail server, spam filter, spamassassin