SMTP Server

Outgoing stmp service via gateway.eecs will not be available during scheduled maintenance on gateway.eecs beginning Wednesday September 7, 2013 06:30

Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7am, we expect actual downtime to be less.

A new SSL certificate with different intermediate SSL certificates is being installed.
[Read more…] about gateway.eecs maintenance Wednesday September 7, 2016 06:30 to 07:00am

A compromised IRIS account was used to send out spam July 29th through July 31, 2016 via gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU

gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU was added to at least two different spam blacklists while it was spewing out spam. gateway has been delists\ed and the owner of the compromised IRIS account was contacted.

Please let us know if you encounter any related issues.

Resolved as of 2016-07-31 11:05:00

At 4:30pm today, we will briefly shutdown gateway.eecs and cricket.eecs, to move them to another rack in the same room.

Downtime should be only 5-10 minutes.

gateway.eecs is used for some outgoing SMTP connections, such as might be configured in Thunderbird or Outlook.

cricket.eecs is used in our network database to display port usage information.
[Read more…] about Brief service interruption for gateway.eecs, cricket.eecs

gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU was offering an expired SSL certificate for outgoing SMTP service during the Monday October 21 16:59 PDT to Tuesday October 22 06:49 PDT time frame.

We regret the inconvenience.

Though a new SSL certificate was installed on gateway on October 1, 2013, not all the appropriate processes were restarted at that time.

Resolved as of 2013-10-22 06:49:00

Outgoing stmp service via gateway.eecs
will not be available during scheduled
mainenance on gateway.eecs beginning
Tuesday October 1, 2013 06:30

Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7am, we expect actual downtime to be less.

A renewed SSL certificate is being installed.
[Read more…] about gateway.eecs maintenance Tuesday October 1, 2013 06:30 to 07:00am

CalMail SMTP server appears to be malfunctioning. As a result, one cannot send email via any email client or web browser. We will let you know when this issue is resolved.
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The installed SSL certificate was scheduled to expire 2011/12/31.

A new SSL certificate was installed on the authenticated outgoing smtp server gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU. This SSL certificate will expire 10/21/2013

Resolved as of 2011-12-06 09:41:00

The current 1024 bit SSL certificate for gateway.EECS.Berkeley.ED will expire soon.

The current Entrust SSL certificate is being replaced by a 2048 bit Entrust SSL certificate that utilizes the Entrust 2048 bit L1B chain root certificate.

Our testing suggests that thunderbird, pine, Outlook, Microsoft Windows Mail (replacement for Outlook Express) and Apple Mail should be able to use the 2048 bit SSL certificate on gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU for outgoing smtp service using STARTTLS without any problems.

If you have problems sending email using gateway.EECS.Berkeley.EDU with the new SSL certifciate please contact the IRIS help desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory M-F 9:30am-5pm, 642-7777).

https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/15-faq/15-software/#Email has documentation on configuring various mail user agents.

Note, if your mail user agent can not handle 2048 bit SSL certificates, the outgoing smtp server on calmail.Berkeley.EDU still uses a 1024 bit SSL certificate.

Resolved as of 2009-11-16 07:14:00

mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU was not accepting incoming email from Thursday February 5, 2009 02:56 to 05:30.

This resulted in delay of delivery of email. No email was lost. No warning messages should have been sent back to senders.

It appears the process table on mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU became full. It appears this may have been a ddos attack.

mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU was rebooted to resume normal service.

Resolved as of 2009-02-05 05:30:00