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IMAP Passwords Need To Be Reset By Sept. 15th, 2009 - August 18th, 2009
Starting today, requirements have changed for new
passwords on IMAP server e-mail accounts. When you reset your IMAP
server e-mail account password, your new password will need to be at
least 10 characters long in order to fulfill Department of Energy
password complexity requirements.
Strong passwords include a combination of letters,
symbols and numbers. For instructions on how to change your IMAP
password, see this site.
On Sept. 15, all IMAP users who have not already chosen a new,
10-character password will be required to reset their passwords using
the new requirements.
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.zip Attachments Blocked on Email Gateways - March 25th, 2008
Due to a new security threat, we are now temporarily blocking .zip files on the email gateways. If you need to have someone send you files via email, please let them know that they will have to use a different packaging format, as .zip files won't get through.
As an alternative, you can use tar+gzip, rar, or rename zip files to not end in .zip.
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Problem with MailGW 2 Yesterday - October 3rd, 2006
There was a problem with one of the email gateway systems discovered
yesterday that caused email from the last couple weeks, that may have been
assumed lost, to finally get delivered.
What happened was, emails that can't get delivered are queued and retried
some time later. Due to a problem on one of the two email servers, the
database that manages the retry queues got corrupted, so some emails that
had problems didn't get retried.
Monday we discovered inconsistencies in this database and re-synced it.
This caused all the "lost" emails to finally get delivered.
We believe we understand the underlying problem and shouldn't be seeing this
problem again.
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Spam Filtered Before Going Offsite - October 2nd, 2006
In order to prevent Fermilab mail servers from being blacklisted as
spam sources, we have implemented a filter that will block emails
being sent to servers outside the Ferimilab network if they have
a SpamAssassin score higher than 8.0. The messages will be held for
7 days and then discarded if there are no requests made to retrieve
the message.
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Using SpamAssassin with Listserv
The latest upgrade to the Listserv software now allows list owners to filter out spam.
On October 12th, 2005, a change will be made so that all email that is tagged as spam (currently, mail with a spam score of 5 or higher), will be sent to the list owner(s) for moderation. List owners can then decide whether or not they wish to allow the message to be sent to the list (by forwarding the message back to the list) or if the message should be deleted. More
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Spam Reporting System Available
There is now
a form available for reporting spam email that was not tagged
as spam, as well as non-spam email that was eroniously tagged as spam. The
reported emails are fed back to the postmaster, who will then review them
and process them into the
Bayesian Filtering
module on the spam
tagging machines. Reporting a single email will not necessarily change the
way the same email may be tagged in the future, but should correct most
mistakes that affect a large number of users.
Since the activation of the Bayesian Filtering module we
have seen an almost 10% increase in the amount of spam being tagged.
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Problems using smtp.fnal.gov from home
There have been a few reports of people trying to use smtp.fnal.gov from home via a ISP to send mail and it isn't working properly. This is generally a ISP problem as they block access to the SMTP port in an attempt to try and reduce the amount of SPAM that orginates from their domain. Please see this document for information on diagnosis of this problem and how to resolve it.
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Email Virus Handling - March 9th,2004
Beginning Tuesday March 9th, 2004, the FNAL Email Gateways will stop delivering messages that are identified as containing a virus.
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Spam Tagging at Fermilab - March 2nd,2004
The FNAL Mail Gateways will soon support the marking of suspect email as SPAM. More information is
available
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IMAP over SSL - October 15th,2003
The IMAP servers support the use of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt communications between the IMAP client and server. Information on client configuration is available.
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Mail Gateway Attachment Filters - September 22nd,2003
Starting the week of September 15th, 2003 the mail gateway adminisitrators have observed long wait times for mail to be delivered. These delays were 1 - 2 hours for mail to make it from offsite
through the gateways. This was caused by the overhead of the AntiVirus scanning software as the amount of mail infected with W32/Gibe and W32/Swen coming onsite has been rather high.
In order to try and prevent these delays (and viruses from spreading onsite) a configuration change was made to block attachements with the following extensions from coming ino the FNAL site from offsite:
vbs pif com exe scr
In keeping with our policy of not deleting incoming mail the message will still get delivered. The body of the message will not change. The following will be added:
The original document has been removed from this message.
The document was removed because
Possible Malicious Email Content Detected
The message contained the following:
This is the same as the current gateway AntiVirus message but without the virus being named. We realize that this may cause a inconvience to some users but there are numerous ways to transfer files that are blocked. If you need any assistance in this please contact the FNAL Helpdesk (x2345 or http://www-csd.fnal.gov/helpdesk/cd/
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IMAP Message Size Restriction - May 6th,2003
Due to Denial of Service problems with very large messages being sent to IMAP users a size restriction has been placed on messages sent to IMAP users. More information is available.
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Relay List going away - April 24th,2003
With the availability of Authenticated SMTP we have started the process of phasing out the relay exemption list for users who travel. The relay exemption list will be removed on May 15th, 2003. After that date the use of Authenticated SMTP will be required to relay mail through the Fermilab mail gateways. See http://computing.fnal.gov/email/smtp-server/tls.html for more details as well as client configuration information.
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Authenticated SMTP - April 3rd,2003
Authenticated SMTP has been enabled on the Mail Gateways. This will allow any authenticated user to relay through the gateways as necessary. Please see http://computing.fnal.gov/email/smtp-server/tls.html for more details as well as client configuration information.
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Email System Status
Check here for the current operational status of our Email systems
and scheduled downtimes.
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Email Help
If you have email issues please open up a request with the
Computing Division Helpdesk instead of sending email to
postmaster@fnal.gov. Use of the Computing Division helpdesk will
help the email support team to respond to user requests in a
timely manner.
The CD Helpdesk web
page is: http://www-csd.fnal.gov/HelpDesk/cd/
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Web Mail
The IMAPServers also support web
based access to the mail stored on the IMAPServers. This is
available at http://imapserverX.fnal.gov where X is the number
(1,2,3) of the IMAPServer that your mail is on. SSL encrypted web
mail is also available
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Problem with rcvtty program
(14 May 2002) : It has been noted that there is a problem with sending mail if you use
"rcvtty" in your .forward file on fsui02 and fsui03. The problem is that sender receives a "Returned Mail" with errors
pointing to rcvtty even though the recipient receives mail okay. We noticed this problem after the upgrade of these
machines to solaris2.8. The computing division is no longer supporting mh, exmh and rcvtty so no updates have been
made to the code in a long time. It is our recommendation that you remove the rcvtty line from your .forward file to
avoid confusion. If you have any questions or concerns, please forward your mail to fnalu-admin@fnal.gov
FNAL
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Users can check/modify their forwards and change
their passwords by looking at this webpage.
Note: In the username box users must put their
USERNAME NOT their username@fnal.gov
Their INITIAL password corresponds to:
your
FNAL imap account password (if you have one)
For account help please contact the Fermilab
Postmaster at postmaster@fnal.gov
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Email relaying disabled
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As of 4/29/1999 Mail
Relaying through the site mailserver has been disabled.
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Change your SMTP Host
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POP and IMAP users need to change the SMTP
server/host on their clients. Please use smtp.fnal.gov
instead of fnal.fnal.gov. For further instructions.
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Past Email News
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