Angelo and Alex managed to get the Alex's news spool to finally import into INN, so we just need to configure the news server and plug in the spools and we should be all set.

I'm working on getting mailman back up; we don't have the lists anymore, so people are going to have to subscribe themselves when it does come back up.

Mail delivery is online and the spools have emptied down. Last I checked, there were about 40 messages in the queue (out of a total of ~18k that we started with ( Read more... )

The delivery half of mail is running, draining out the relay. Whitefox's 60.19 ip is still firewalled, letting the relay finish first. Once that happens, we'll unfirewall it.

Imap and pop should be kinda up. Mail submission is still down right now.

We're nearing the final stages of having mail /delivery/ back online, with several caveats ( Read more... )

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Rebuilding efforts continue. Got the base OS installed on a FreeBSD geom mirror after much work. Started working on installing packages when i got up around 11 am ( Read more... )

This just keeps getting worse. Please read this entire message, of if you don't care to, read the bottom: we might need your helpTurns out the news spool was probably stored on /usr or /var, which are medium-term dead right now ( Read more... )

"Well, the firewall hasn't updated yet, so mailrelay won't be visible."
"Well, two non-responsive mail servers can't be worse than one" =)

The restore from ITS is going tragically slow (Angelo told me about around 1:20 pm that we only had about 2.5 GB recovered out of ~23 ( Read more... )

Whitefox got rebooted due to a power problem, then the raid card refused to boot up because its hold-up battery is dead. We've been thus-far unsuccessful at convincing it to not give a damn. Seriously shitty hardware ( Read more... )