I sense a disturbance in the force …

Just when we’re about to have another major release … I am sensing some disturbance in the force. It must be our release testing! 🙂

Don’t you hate it when email goes down??

Email Delays

For the third time in three weeks, we’re having Amahi email delays issues. All these issues have been independent.

  • The first time around there were some DNS issues for the root DNS server of our registrar. Very unusual.
  • The second time was when someone in the same network block as our email server was having some virus/spambot infections and someone, somewhere, decided to label us as spammers. Not nice!
  • Lastly, for the last 36 hours we have incoming email down due to a server supply motherboard being busted!

Email is both simple, yet notoriously hard to manage reliably. Only when things fail I realize how complex my “email tree” is! Mailing lists, Google groups, Yahoo groups, spam, personal email, Blackberry email (hmm, yummy!) … the works.

You tell me … 🙂

Incidentally, we’re getting closer to releasing an email server for Amahi, yet I still don’t understand why people chose to run their own email server 🙂

Cartoon by Nicholson from “The Australian” newspaper.

4 comments

  1. Jonathan Mar 31

    I used to run my own e-mail on clarkconnect, it even had some spam filtering i think. But then i got a google apps account. The will run your e-mail for free, use g-mail or their imap server. It is wonderful! The best part is that google does way better spam filtering than anyone else.

  2. Andy Pflueger Mar 31

    I, too, switched from hosting my mail server with Sendmail and spamassasin after switching to google apps. The cloud is where its at! 🙂

  3. carlos Apr 1

    We’ll have to consider that – how about sending email out?

    Amahi is growing pretty rapidly. The forums are sending emails, the bug reports generate email, password resets and new activations generate emails. It’s hundreds and hundreds of emails a day.

    So far we have not really sent emails out to users, however, we’d like to start a conversation with the community. That will generate way more outgoing email.

  4. moredruid Apr 10

    hmmm I’ve been running a mailserver for more than 6 years now I think. I’ve never had any issues, but I have to say the mail volume isn’t that large… as for reliability, I’ve never had any downtime except for one time when my PSU blew up and damaged the mainboard in the process.

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