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Technicians were up early checking on the mail transfer which ran through the night: still in progress.

Staff have worked today to preserve our e-mail and migrate it to new storage. The new server is configured and ready to go once e-mail has been migrated. We *anticipate* 24-36 more hours will be involved. (Again: MILLIONS of messages!) Next update: Sunday morning.

The e-mail server is being left off for the night. CTS will resume work restoring service in the morning

While our main server is down, users are prevented from accessing mail already delivered. Main being sent while the main server is down is NOT bouncing back to senders–it is being queued and stored until the main server comes back online, at which point it will eventually deliver.

E-mail, which was working for most (but not all) users for much of the day, is now completely offline as CTS works to stabilize the server itself. Updates as we know more.

The email server crashed again. The crash an hour or so ago showed indications of hardware and/or firmware failure, a serious issue. Your beleaguered CTS staff continues to attempt to resolve the problem.

The email server has just crashed. CTS staff are investigating.

The CTS system administration team has been working through the night on this problem. The copying of users’ email folders continued through the night, but early estimates of the progress were overly optimistic. As of 6:00 am today (Friday), about 2/3 of the data has been moved from the drive that failed, onto a new drive. Half a terabyte remains to be copied. Experiments with restoring access to the copied folders, while also keeping mail that has been delivered during the last day, show that this is trickier than originally thought. Work is ongoing. We apologize for inconvenience. Rest assured our system administration team has restoring email service as their top priority.

Campus WiFi has been updated and is back online.

Tomorrow morning at 6am, Network Services will be apply updates the the campus firewall. This will cause a brief 10 minute outage to any incoming and outgoing services to include the VPN. – CTS