Retirement of Glue email service <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="pico"> <META NAME="Date" CONTENT="03/09/1999"> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="PNCE Staff (pnce@physics.umd.edu)"> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000" BACKGROUND="Image3.jpg"> <table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><TR> <TD> <IMG SRC="pncelogo.gif" HSPACE=30 HEIGHT=152 WIDTH=275 ALIGN=LEFT ALT="PNCE Logo"> </TD> <TD width=100% align=middle valign=center> <B><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE=+2> Retirement <BR>of <BR>Glue Email <BR>Service </FONT></FONT></B> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <p>  You should have received email last week notifying you that the campus Office of Information Technology (OIT) is planning to retire a number of mail services (Glue, WAM, Deans) as of September 30, and is encouraging people to migrate to their centralized mail@umd.edu service. With the tightening of the campus budget, as well as increased demands in terms of volume, reliability, and features like webmail, spam filtering, antivirus filtering, portable device access, etc., campus is trying to consolidate all mail services into their <I>mail@umd.edu</I> service to leverage some economies of scale. A number of people have raised questions/concerns as to what this means for the departmental (<I>@physics.umd.edu</I>) mail service, since the departmental mail server is on a Glue'd system. These questions will be adressed here: <OL type=1> <LI>If you access all your mail on the Mirapoint system, <I><B>http://mail.umd.edu</B></I>, or your email client is pointing to <I>mail.umd.edu</I>, this message and those from OIT do not affect you. <LI>There are currently no plans to decommission the departmental (<I>@physics.umd.edu</I>) mail server in the near future (next year or so). Physics Computing Services (PCS) will give at least 4 months notice, with frequent reminders, should this situation change in the future. <LI>PCS is committed to ensuring mail addressed to <B><I>@physics.umd.edu</I></B> will continue to reach you for at least several years to come. If you migrate to the campus mail system, arrangements can be made to have <I>@physics.umd.edu</I> mail forwarded. Even if PCS decommissions the departmental mail system, we will see that your <I>@physics.umd.edu</I> address remains valid for at least several years. (<B>Note</B>: campus is strongly encouraging people to advertise the <B><I>@umd.edu</I></B> address. This can be reflected to either the campus system, the departmental server, or some other mail system at your option.) <LI>PCS is strongly recommending that you consider moving your mail services to the campus system. Over the past several years, the campus service has proven reliable, and offers many features not available on the departmental system. For most people, you can initiate migration procedures by visiting <A HREF="https://www.oit.umd.edu/new/"> the OIT Account creation site</A> and following the "Existing Faculty/Staff/Student/Affiliate" link. Specific migration information is available at the <A HREF="https://www.oit.umd.edu/email/wam-glue.html"> OIT Email migration site</A>. Those who joined the university within the past two years should already be on the new system. <B>Note</B>: If you have large email archives, you may need to contact PCS for assistance with the migration. <LI>Currently, PCS is not forcing anyone to move off the departmental mail server. If you wish to continue on the departmental mail server, for the most part, things will continue as normal after September 30. However, the following potential issues should be noted: <OL type=i> <LI>Please make sure that your email clients are set up to use <I>imap.physics.umd.edu</I> and <I>mail.physics.umd.edu</I> instead of <I>imap.glue.umd.edu</I> and <I>mail.glue.umd.edu</I> as the incoming and outgoing mail servers. Although the latter settings will work pretty much the same as the former for now, that will not be the case after Sept. 30. <LI>Email sent to <I>@glue.umd.edu</I> addresses may no longer be equivalent to email sent to <I>@physics.umd.edu</I> addresses. In particular, the former might get redirected to <I>@mail.umd.edu</I> addresses, which may bounce if you do not have a <I>mail@umd.edu</I> account. (You can obtain a <I>mail@umd.edu</I> account and have it forward to <I>@physics.umd.edu</I> if you really wish to.) <LI>Also, the departmental mail service is currently receiving collateral benefits from the efforts OIT staff in their maintenance of the Glue mail system, and this will cease after Sept. 30, putting an increased maintenance burden on PCS staff. As such, you may notice some degradation of the departmental mail service after Sept. 30. In particular, Glue staff currently expend a fair amount of effort to reduce the amount of spam received by Glue systems, and this will likely suffer when PCS takes over. (Based on the number of spam messages making it into your inbox, it may seem like there is little spam filtering, but actually Physics systems do filter out a <B>LOT</B> of spam.) </OL> </OL> <P> Posted: 22 Auguust 2007  <P><HR WIDTH="100%"></P> <ADDRESS> <table align=center border=0 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td valign=middle><a href="http://www.umd.edu/"><img src="../sigmark.gif" width=185 height=32 alt="University of Maryland Signature" border=0></a></td> <td> </td> <td valign=middle nowrap> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="-2"> <a href="http://www.physics.umd.edu/">Physics Home</a> | <a href="http://www.physics.umd.edu/pnce/user-docs">PNCE Info</a> | <a href="http://www.physics.umd.edu/pnce/user-docsPNCE-Unix/">UNIX Info</a> | <a href="http://internal.physics.umd.edu/pnce/PNCE-PC/">PC Info</a> | <a href="http://internal.physics.umd.edu/sysadmin/Info/System_Info.html">System Info</a> | <a href="http://internal.physics.umd.edu/cgi-bin/physhelp.pl">physhelp</a> | <a href="mailto:pnce@physics.umd.edu?subject=PNCE Pages">E-Mail</a> | <a href="http://internal.physics.umd.edu/cgi-bin/physhelp.pl">physhelp</a> <br><br> This page is maintained by the Physics Web Managers: <DL> <DD>For Content Questions contact the <A HREF="mailto:webeditor@physics.umd.edu?subject=PNCE_Content"> WebEditor</A>. <DD>For Technical Questions contact the <A HREF="mailto:webtech@physics.umd.edu?subject=PNCE_Tech"> WebTech</A>. </DL> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="-2"> <SCRIPT> </SCRIPT> </font> </td> </tr></table> <P><HR></P> </ADDRESS> </BODY></HTML>