Unix Systems Group

Email services will be down for about 15 minutes between midnight and 12:30 A.M. The email data has been moved to a new storage device and the mail services will be unavailable as some final adjustments are made. If you have problems with your account after 12:30 A.M. 2/9/2007 please post here.

00:20 A.M. 2/9/2007
Mail services have been up for about 10 minutes now since the switch. Please post here if you are experiencing any problems with your mail.usf.edu account.

A few of you may have noticed the email services actually recovered twice yesterday but failed immediately after coming back online (once at ~ 5 P.M. for about 1/2 hour and once ~ 9 P.M. for about 10 minutes). This time we opted to move the data once again to a new home. This is not our permanent solution however. Ideally the next time we relocate will not be because of hardware failure. We will do it during Spring break or after the end of Spring session giving advanced notice to all of our intentions. Such a move would require minimal downtime.

The storage system serving mail.usf.edu accounts is having problems again. Mail and Blackboard admins are working on the problem with Sun engineers. We will post updates as they become available.

Update (5:37PM) The system was available briefly, but it is still having problems. We are continuing to work with Sun engineers on this issue.