POP will not be supported going forward as passwords are sent in cleartext. POPs (secured) is supported and is working for on and off campus users. If you have trouble accessing your email, submit a mayday at http://mayday.westmont.edu and someone will contact you.

There was a tremor in the network this morning. Something is afoot…

There were significant updates applied to the SAN Friday which required a reboot and a small configuration change. This resulted in mail home directories being offline for a short time.

Here’s to a good Friday and a restful weekend…

I should really be punished for not posting yesterday and dozing until AFTER 1PM TODAY! I guess nothing interesting has happened in IT since Tuesday…

A direct lift from John’s email:
At 9 p.m. tonight we will be rebooting limerick (aka mocha, aka “the P
Drive”, aka “the S Drive”)
in order to resolve the reliability problem which brought limerick down
this morning.
It is expected to be unavailable for a matter of 5 to 15 minutes.
There will be no access to Datatel or to […]

Thank you to the few folks who actually took the time to delete old and garbage emails from your accounts yesterday. I appreciate your consideration and attention.
Kevin

Limerick, Endeavor/Voyager (Library Catalogue) and OCal all went offline this morning. Limerick has been successfully brought back online, and the cause of the problem is being investigated. Endeavor was inadvertently taken offline due to a documentation error. OCal went offline after running out of space when running backups due to a scripting error. […]

MEMO
December 4, 2006
TO: Anyone who happened to receive this email
FROM: The email garbage collector (Oscar comes to mind…)
1. Empty (purge) your trash folder. Trash is NOT an archive.
2. Purge emails from folders with cobwebs on them.
3. Do not send files to all campus. A direct link to your department’s
web page that houses the […]

Guess I spoke too soon. Internet problems continue, though we have managed almost an entire day now with out symptoms. If you have a middle-of-the-night inspiration, pipe up!