Core Services

Category: GAC IT

  • Spamassassin Changes

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    doachs

    Due to performance issues, I had to clean out everyone’s spamassassin learning (bayes) database and migrate it to a new server. As a result all spamassassin training has been reset and you may notice more spam making it into your mailbox. If you would like help re-training, I have made a quick and dirty page…

  • Unexpected Downtime

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    doachs

    At about 2:45pm Thursday August 31, our primary mailserver failed causing all access to Gustavus email to stop. Email service was restored at about 3:05pm. As a result, some of you using non webmail based email clients may notice some messages are now marked as unread that were read just before the server failed. To…

  • Wildfire Updated

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    doachs

    Over the weekend I upgraded our Wildfire Jabber server to the most recent version.  Now I believe that using our LDAP based groups will work much better.  Now if we could just get more people to use our own  Jabber IM server instead of AOL, MSN, or Yahoo…

  • Wireless update for International

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    doachs

    We added a couple more wireless access points to International yesterday to give the East side of that building better coverage.

  • Wireless in Complex

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    doachs

    Last Friday, Ethan, Alison, and I finished up installing a grand total of 12 new wireless access points in Complex.  Now North, Gibbs, and Sorensen all should have decent wireless internet access.

  • Wire for Wireless

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    doachs

    We just finished pulling more wire to places in Southwest hall where we are planning on putting wireless access points.  There will be 14 access points in all which will hopefully cover the entire dorm in a nice coating of 802.11g.

  • SpamAssassin Upgrade Again

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    doachs

    Well, it was bound to happen.  Since I just recently finished upgrading SpamAssassin to version 3.1.2, they released 3.1.3 to fix a security hole.  So, SpamAssassin has been upgraded once again.  Here’s hopeing that this version is a good one.

  • Moving Time

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    doachs

    Ethan and I decided it was time for a change of scenery.  As a result, we have just finished moving from our old office (Olin 132) to our new office (Olin 122).  The new office has not been occupied since Kathy left a few months back.  It has a nice window and a little more…

  • MS Word Vulnerability and Exploit

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    doachs

    It looks like there is a newly discovered vulnerability in MS Word that is being exploited via email.  I have not yet seen any sign of this here, but no doubt we will see something soon enough. See the following articles for more information: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1965042,00.asp http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1347 http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/05/19/1718203.shtml

  • Gustavus WebMail Beta

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    doachs

    There is a new version of Gustavus WebMail that is now available for testing.  If you use WebMail frequently, please give the new version a try at https://webmail-beta.gac.edu/horde/ If you have any feedback about this new version of WebMail, please send it to webmaster@gustavus.edu. As with many beta’s, access to this service may disappear at…