SMTP Server

SMTP Service

gateway.eecs upgrade

February 12, 2025 by Rob McNicholas

The IRIS authenticated SMTP relay gateway.eecs.berkeley.edu was upgraded this morning to a new operating system and mail software. The suggested configuration for the new server is:

name: gateway.eecs.berkeley.edu
port: 587
Encryption: STARTTLS
Authentication method: normal password
Username: your IRIS username (e.g. robm)
Password: your IRIS password

The old server apparently accepted email addresses for the username (e.g. robm@eecs.berkeley.edu) but this does not work on the new servers. If you are having problems authenticating, please check your Username configuration.

Soda Hall 2nd Floor Power Outage on June 13, 2024

June 3, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

As noted following the January 4th Soda Hall power outage, an additional power outage for the second floor of Soda Hall is being scheduled to complete a circuit breaker replacement. Electrical power to the Soda Hall second floor will be down during much of the day on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Critical systems will be down from about 6am until perhaps 5pm.

Of primary note is that the department NetApp fileservers will be down, so any systems that depend on HOME or PROJECT storage will be shutdown or nonfunctional. Services that will be unavailable during the maintenance period include: department webservice (including people.eecs, www2.eecs and all other IRIS-hosted web sites), IRIS account & network forms, login servers (login.eecs, login-mfa.eecs, winterm.eecs), print server print.eecs, and outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs.

Any systems that remain powered-on but make use of HOME or PROJECT storage may become unresponsive during this time. Rebooting after maintenance is completed is usually recommended.

Services that will remain online and available include: DHCP, EECS Active Directory, EECS LDAP, wired networking, DNS (cronus.eecs), and maillists (lists.eecs), and the main department website eecs.berkeley.edu.

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Soda Hall Power Outage on January 4, 2024

November 16, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

To accommodate the installation of new circuit breakers and PDU (Power Distribution Unit) connections, all electrical power to the 2nd and 4th floors of Soda Hall will be shutdown during the day of Thursday, January 4, 2024. Critical systems will be down from 6am until perhaps 5pm.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday June 13, 2023 06:30-07:45 am

June 12, 2023 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Wednesday March 15, 2023 06:30-07:45 am

March 14, 2023 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday December 20, 2022 06:30-07:45 am

December 19, 2022 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Tuesday November 8, 2022 06:30-07:45 am

November 7, 2022 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Thursday September 1, 2022 06:30-07:45 am

August 31, 2022 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Thursday August 18, 2022 06:30-07:45 am

August 16, 2022 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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Various Linux servers (login, dhcp, DNS, SMTP, NTP) downtime Wednesday July 6, 2022 06:30-07:45 am

July 5, 2022 by Mark Kraitchman

Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.

The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.

cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.

The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.

We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.

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