Electronic mail at Miami suffered several glitches this weekend, from
which it is still recovering.
 
     The mailer software on MiamiU, the centrally managed, multi-user IBM
VM/CMS system, did not come online this morning as it normally does, and
thus stopped delivering mail.
 
     The Charon gateway, which delivers mail to those Novell NetWare servers
not running Mercury (i.e., pre-4.0 or later Novell NetWare servers), was
locked up at the hardware level most of the weekend.
 
     The microcomputer in MCIS Operations that normally pages MCIS Networking
and Technical Support staff when something is wrong, also apparently suffered
some malfunction over the weekend, which prevented it from alerting the
appropriate staff.
 
     The mail backlogs on MiamiU, the Charon gateway, and Rose (which resolves
[log in to unmask] addresses, and thus inherits backlogs when downed systems
come back online) are being processed this morning, and electronic mail
appears to be moving again fairly normally.
 
     Please address any questions to the MCIS Help Desk by telephone at
529-7900 or by electronic mail at [log in to unmask]
 
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                                John B Harlan
             Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
                              Miami University
                 137 Hoyt Hall  Oxford, Ohio 45056-1618  USA
                      http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~HarlanJB/
        (513) 529-5330     (513) 529-1496 fax     [log in to unmask]