[TriLUG] New servers installed

[Chris Knowles]

Cool Beans.

Could you share the location of the docs on UW IMAP in Black Box mode?

And if this does all get in line... for which I think we all owe Tanner
and Hedemark (and others as well, though it seems those two spearheaded
it) a drink... How do we tell Andrew Oliver?  :)

CJK
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 23:51, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just wanted to update everyone on what has been happening with
> the trilug servers.  This evening I went over to Inflow and installed
> the new ftp server and the new kerberos/ldap/e-mail server.  So, 
> the machines are physically in place.  The services they will have,
> however, still need to be setup.  Kerberos and ldap are up and
> running, but they need to be populated.  That will probably 
> happen as people request e-mail accounts, though, to avoid
> messing up the people who already have shell accounts.  For 
> imap, I've been looking at cyrus imap and I'm not very encouraged.
> Instead, I've found some good docs on how to setup UW imap
> in what's known as "black box mode" and using the mbx format
> instead of the default mbox (or standard unix mailbox) format.
> The mbx format apparently solves several problems with the
> mbox format and provides a significant speed increase.  I'll
> be working on setting that up tomorrow and the next day.  I'm
> *hoping* (but don't hold me to this) that it will be up and
> running and available for testing by the time the meeting
> rolls around. <fingers crossed>
> 
> As far as the mirror server is concerned, I'm going to be
> copying over the current mirrors and then moving all
> access to the mirrors over to the new machine.  I'm anticipating
> that being up and running with everything sometime next week
> (just because I have a lot of other stuff to do, *and* I'm going
> to be in Houston, TX from friday until monday :-).
> 
> So, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
> Note that I've set the reply-to on this message to go to the
> hosting at trilug.org list which is probably where this should
> be discussed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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