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New Mailing List (and mailing list server)

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hey, folks! We’re in the process of rolling out the new mailing list server, and to give it a good test run, I’ve set up a new list. In the spirit of the [email protected] mailing list (which is used for trading tips, tricks, and general discu…

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Zimbra Update Complete

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The Zimbra upgrade portion of today’s work is complete. The network reorganization is mostly done, expect an all-clear later. Expect a brief Zimbra outage tomorrow morning while the disk server gets a firmware upgrade.

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Using your iPhone 2.0 With Zimbra

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

With the new server upgrade in place, you can now wirelessly sync your iPhone with Zimbra, and never tether it to your computer again for Contacts and Calendar syncing — you’ll still connect it for iPod Music/Video/etc syncs. First, the caveats: …

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Sort of announcement of a sort of new (but not really) service

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

For those who have a need to access internal-only sites via the web, and don’t want to install or use the Cisco VPN client, there’s a web-based VPN proxy you can use to access these internal sites. It’s not quite a production service at this point…

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Random Zimbra Tidbits

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Zimbra 5.0.9 is released, and will be the installed version on Saturday. After the install, login to the web interface at https://zimbra.anl.gov, go to Preferences, and try out some of the new themes. The Yahoo and Zmail themes are great for peopl…

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Mail and Network Outage, 8/23/2008 & 8/24/2008

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Executive summary for those who don’t want to read anything beyond the bare details: On Saturday, August 23rd, both the MCS Mail & Calendar (aka Zimbra) and the MCS Production network will be undergoing maintenance and will be unavailable from 6AM…

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Printer Etiquette

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hey, folks. Hope everyone’s having a great summer. I was going to put this note into the next Dispatch from the Geeks, but I’ve had some requests on the matter recently, so I figure I’d send along this note right now. Today’s lesson comes in the f…

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Zimbra and iCal syncing

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

If you use iCal and sync your calendar with Zimbra, or would like to start, I’ve posted detailed instructions on how you can do this with CalDAV here: http://wiki.mcs.anl.gov/IT/index.php/Mail#Zimbra_and_iCal I’ve seen enough failures and sync iss…

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Zimbra Upgrade Wrap-up

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

The dry details: Zimbra upgrade this weekend is complete. It seems to be faster and the issues we’d seen with dropped IMAP connections and blank e-mail copies seems to be solved, let us know if this is otherwise. There are new features in the new …

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We're back

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Took a little longer, but we’re back. We’re still monitoring things, but everything looks normal. I’m going to run some tests on some known bugs we wanted to fix, and I’ll post an update later with some of the new features you can now use. Thanks …

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