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hi,
i've made a couple of changes to how email works on the toolserver, mainly that
each account now has an associated email address in LDAP. i haven't added such
an address for existing accounts, but if you want to, you can set your email
address by running 'setmail'. your account's email address takes precedence
over $HOME/.forward for email to <username>@toolserver.org.
if you don't want to do this, you can continue to use the old .forward-style
mail forwarding. however, if you don't set an email address in LDAP, you won't
be able to make use of future services which might use this, such as
automatically resetting your SSH key or LDAP password.
to emphasise: you do not *need* to do anything because of this change if you
don't want to. if you do nothing, your account will continue to work as
before.
- river.
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hi,
the email address to contact Toolserver administrators has changed. you should
now use ts-admins(a)toolserver.org, _not_ ts-admins(a)wikimedia.org. the latter
address will continue to work for now, but might stop working in the future.
- river.
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hi,
mail to @toolserver.org addresses (and mail directly to any machine, e.g.
@nightshade.toolserver.org) is now being filtered for spam. the filtering is
configured fairly laxly; it will only reject mail with a SpamAssassin score
over 120, which will almost certainly not match legitimate mail. mail with a
score over 50 will be greylisted. other mail will have several headers added
(which begin with X-TS-Spam-), so you can do your own filtering.
we will monitor the effectiveness of the filtering over the next few days and
might adjust these parameters as needed.
- river.
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hi,
as Wikimedia deleted the MySQL binlogs required for replicating s3 on the
Toolserver, replication is now halted. a full dump/import is required to fix
replication. because disk space on yarrow is limited at the moment, and we are
about to receive new servers, i might wait until this before reimporting.
(however, if that's likely to take a long time, i might do it sooner.)
- river.
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at some point between these two dates (exact date isn't yet known), Wikimedia
will performance maintenance at the knams hosting facility, where the
Toolserver is hosted. this will involve downtime for all servers as we will be
moving to a new rack.
i will combine this maintenance with the next Toolserver quarterly maintenance,
which was previously scheduled for January 5th.
the total outage period will be several hours.
- river.
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