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E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting. Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila November 9, 2005. Blocked Mail Reporting. Blocked mail reports can now be sent via email daily (previous 24 hours) or weekly (Mon 6am – Mon 6am) around 6am
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E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila November 9, 2005
Blocked Mail Reporting • Blocked mail reports can now be sent via email daily (previous 24 hours) or weekly (Mon 6am – Mon 6am) around 6am • Formats: plain text (default), HTML, or CSV (comma-separated values) • Sort by date/time (default), originator address, or IP address
Incoming Mail Controls(proposed) • User-maintained exceptions (whitelist) • Adding exceptions for an entire domain • Allowing arbitrary user input • User-maintained blacklist • Arbitrary email address or domain • Useful for blocking free email providers
Inbox Auto-Filing • 17,799 eligible users notified • 11,447 users auto-filed total (i.e. mailbox scanned, possibly filed) • 4,538 remain > 20MB (395 remain > 100MB!) • 1,175 users auto-filed on 11/8 • 834 mailboxes contained eligible messages • 62,421 (5GB) of 382,099 (56GB) messages filed
Phase-out of clear-text passwords • 2,799 users remain insecure • 2309 TC client/server (aquamarine) • 302 TC premium (garnet) • 188 Morris client/server (cougar) • Moving users at a rate of 250 per day to secure E-mail servers
Outgoing SMTP Issues • smtp.umn.edu services are now restricted to central e-mail users only • OIT Security continuing to look at scanning servers authorized to use relay.tc.umn.edu • Timeline for smtp-gw.tc.umn.edu service phase-out approx. 1Q2006
Sponsored Wireless Access • Staff/faculty can sponsor wireless access for another person • Good for both TC & Duluth campuses • Allows wirewall auth only (no e-mail) • Expires at midnight after two days • http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/sponsor-wireless
Wireless for Conferences • Request up to 100 accounts/batch • Start and stop dates are required • IDs are recycled after expiration • TC campus only • Allows wirewall auth only (no e-mail) • http://www.umn.edu/dirtools/sponsor-confwireless
Steve Siirila sfs@umn.edu 612-626-0244 Chris Bongaarts cab@umn.edu 612-625-1809 ‘Till next month…