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You will have noticed an interruption to delivery since Wednesday morning last week. We send a heartbeat message through the list server to test end-to-end delivery. These failed Wednesday morning last week (1 hr approx after the keynote at teched). I am heavily involved in teched each year and given my role as lead engineer, it was not possible to action a fix until after the event as we obviously had other priorities. This could not be avoided due to unfortunate timing. The nature of the issue is that SMTPSVC and GFI MailEssentials are both failing. The VM and databases + backups are fine so there are no lost subscribers. We have been experiencing delivery/crashing/duplicate issues with the latest version of GFI MailEssentials and our paid support has been pretty ordinary so we made the call to take it out back and shoot it. SMTPSVC has been pretty unmanageable in the context of a mailing list as a lot of the critical information required for diagnoses of issues is locked up in undocumented binary formats in alternate NTFS data streams. Based on the above issues we've moved the lists over to MailMan on Postfix. The new features we have as a result are: - Self-help web portal where you can change your own list settings. Start here: http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo - Optional list digest - Proper moderation of posts (we're not using this but it is nice to have) - Moderation of membership to lists on a confirm/approval basis. Nice for some of the private ones we look after - Proper bounce processing where the server keeps a bounce score for each e-mail address and will automatically remove offending addresses if their bounce score is too high. - Built in archive - *TEXT BASED LOGS I CAN ACTUALLY READ WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG!!* There are a few minor changes to acknowledgements and attachment handling which we will work through over the next few days as we bed things down. *Administration List* The ausdotnetadmin list has been retired in favour of a new list called ad...@lists.codify.com. This is the overarching administration list of all of the lists we run (not just ausdotnet anymore) where we discuss such things as software upgrades, policy and other random bits and pieces. Anyone is free to join the list as long as you're constructive and polite. *If you are an owner of one of the lists we manage you MUST join the admin list to stay up to date with server moves and so on.* If you have any questions, please send them to be directly at da...@codify.com. Happy posting! David. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
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