[TriLUG] Mail server downtime

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>Don't forget.  Starting in 15 minutes, the trilug mail and imap servers
>will be down.  They will be down until about midday tomorrow.  This
>means all the mailing lists too.
>
>Tanner Lovelace
>Chairman, TriLUG SC
>
>  
>
A correction should be made to this.  Upon further consultation Tanner 
and I were able to devise a way to avoid having to take the mailing list 
itself down (1).  Only those users who use local IMAP mail on the TriLUG 
servers will be affected by the change.  Normal mailing list mail (such 
as this one you are reading now) will be delivered in a timely fashion 
as usual.  If you're reading this a few days late from your IMAP box on 
the TriLUG server, well you already knew from the previous message that 
it was down.  :)

Aaron S. Joyner
System Administrator, TriLUG SC

1) For those interested, on the "source" server that is being migrated 
away from, we set local_transport = local and defer_transports = local, 
which causes all new incoming mail destined for delivery into local 
trilug.org mailboxes via the local transport to be deferred.  After the 
migration is complete, we will then change the main.cf configuration of 
that server such that it is no longer considered a local destination for 
trilug.org, and then mail will flow off of it in a natural fashion.  
Once the queues are empty, we can then remove the defer_transports and 
things will have reached a steady state in the new configuration.