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We’ve narrowed down what caused the blockage. A user who forwards all his mail to Yahoo fired off several thousand jobs on the TeraGrid, all of which started failing, resulting in a near-constant flood of mail to that user. Yahoo interpreted this …
If you or someone you know is using Yahoo mail, please note that Yahoo has decided that it will not accept mail from our servers. We’re working on recitfying this. A number of users are forwarding their Argonne mail directly to their Yahoo mailbox…
In an attempt to ensure you’re inundated with communication from as many sources as possible, you can now follow us on your favorite social network, provided your favorite social network is one of either Twitter, Facebook, or Yammer. Twitter users…
Would you like to have the weather forecast on your calendar? If it speaks ICS (like iCal, Zimbra, Google, Lightning, etc.), you can. Visit Weather Underground and punch in the zip code for your location. On the resultant page, right-click the ICA…
Here’s the official announcement from the CIS Zimbra team: All: Saturday, March 14, we will be upgrading the Zimbra service: * the Zimbra application will be upgraded from 5.0.11 to 5.0.14 * OS patching and maintenance will be done The maintenance…
If you’d like a calendar of when the lab is closed, you have a few options. In Zimbra, add a new Calendar, click the “Synchronize appointments from remote calendar”, and enter the URL as: https://zimbra.anl.gov/home/[email protected]/Calen…
The Zimbra server upgrade scheduled for last weekend will now go ahead this Saturday at 9AM. The outage will last from 9AM until 1PM. An upside is a brand new release of the Zimbra server came out, so we’ll now be moving to Zimbra version 5.0.14. …
Some of you may have seen the news this week of a “reply-all storm” that took out the State Department’s e-mail system. It’s a real problem that can hit any organization, and there are easy ways to avoid it. Here are some really simple tips to mak…
As part of the effort to retire the old web servers, the Systems blog has moved to its new home on press.mcs.anl.gov. You can still get to it via http://www.mcs.anl.gov/systems/blog but the new URL is http://press.mcs.anl.gov/systems. If you use R…
Hey, folks, we’re planning to upgrading the wiki servers on Tuesday. Please see this attached note from Ken. As always, if this presents a problem, please let us know and we’ll reschedule. All, We’re going to move the MCS core wiki services to new…
