Thread: Mailsystem maintenance/migration announcement

Mailsystem maintenance/migration announcement

From
Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Date:
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Hi all!

We are currently planning to finalize the ongoing work on the mailsystem
migration we started earlier this year by migrating the
two remaining components of the postgresql.org mailsystem infrastructure
to new systems.
Those parts (listserver and mailbox hosting) will be moved to new
systems in an maintenance window on:

Friday, 10th of august starting 15:00 GMT

The migration is expected to take about 2 hours, in that time period all
mails will be held queued on our inbound systems (which are already on
the new infrastructure) and no outbound mails will be sent (or can be
sent using the webmail system).
We expect no loss of in-transit emails at all and for the mailbox users
with local storage we are going to complete migrate all the content of
their mailboxes per that date.

People using mailboxes (as in have an @postgresql.org address) and do
NOT have a forwards will have to make modifications to their
configuration and will get a seperate email with appropriate details on
what (and if) they have to change anything.
Apart from that we do not expect any user-visible behaviour changes with
regards to the list-service itself




Stefan
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Re: Mailsystem maintenance/migration announcement

From
Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Excerpts from Stefan Kaltenbrunner's message of lun ago 06 13:21:49 -0400 2012:

> We are currently planning to finalize the ongoing work on the mailsystem
> migration we started earlier this year by migrating the
> two remaining components of the postgresql.org mailsystem infrastructure
> to new systems.
> Those parts (listserver and mailbox hosting) will be moved to new
> systems in an maintenance window on:
>
> Friday, 10th of august starting 15:00 GMT

... and finally, after a much longer downtime window than originally
expected, we have completed the migration to the new mail system.

We're really sorry for the inconvenience and the long downtime.  We had
unexpected absence of one people of the involved (me) due to an
unforeseen unavoidable compromise; and we furthermore had to cope with
one other person getting very ill at the last minute.

It also turns out that we made a serious mistake in the configuration
somewhere and this might have resulted in some undesirable emails being
sent out to subscribers of various lists.  Sorry about that.  Please
ignore those; they should not show up again.  If they do, please report
back.

The new system is not completely debugged yet, alas.  It will take some
time before we really figure out everything so that lists work at least
as quickly as they did in the old site; we hope to have that figured
that out as soon as possible.  In the meantime, things might be a little
slow, but emails should get out there.

If you see anything not working as it should, be sure to ping us by
replying here.

Your friendly email admin team,
  Magnus Hagander, Álvaro Herrera, Stefan Kaltenbrunner

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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