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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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Update

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Hit a small snag. It shouldn’t be much longer, probably another 60 to 90 minutes. See the CIS outage page for details.

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Mail Upgrade in progress

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

Short status update for those who may not have seen the notices or forgotten, the mail server upgrade is under way. Things should be back by 1:00 PM Central. Stay tuned.

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Zimbra certificate issue, Also upgrade news

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

First up, some of you would have noticed an issue on 6/11 getting to Zimbra. The very short version of the story is that in anticipation of our existing SSL certificate expiring, a new one was ordered. Unbeknownst to anyone here, when they issued …

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Mail Upgrade postponed

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

We’re postponing the upgrade to the Zimbra server. In the run-up to the migration, we discovered an issue that we had not previously identified in the plan. It’s not a big issue, mind you, but rather than improvise something, we’re going to make s…

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Mail outage, June 7 2008, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

It looks like we’ll be able to go ahead with the server upgrade I sent mail about earlier this week. You may get another notice from CIS on this, but here is the current plan: Upgrade to ZCS (Zimbra Collaboration Suite) software v5.0.6 from 5.0.2 …

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Dispatch 2008.4: The Aftermath

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

(There’s a beer theme going here, bear with me. It’s American Craft Beer Week: http://www.americancraftbeerweek.org.) Well, folks, I’m past due for my general update on All Things Systems. I’d like to make this a longer note, but I’m pressed for t…

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Interesting Read

March 29, 2022 by Stacey, Craig

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/whats-the-worst-e-mail-mistake-you-ever-made/ Good post by one of the Freakanomics authors, and a cautionary tale in this day and age of automatic address completion. I’m sure almost every one of us…

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