Spam Filtering

The web interfaces to the EECS Barracuda Anti-Spam appliances (https://bc3.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/index.cgi and https://bc4.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/index.cgi) are used to manage whitelisted and blacklisted email addresses.

Currently, the login screens to these web interfaces are not allowing login, and instead respond with “Error: Invalid Username or Password”.

This appears to be a bug/problem unrelated to other recent problems we have had with IMAP and LDAP. Staff are taking the issue up with the vendor.
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To alleviate a particularly bad state of email delays yesterday we have started blocking hosts that appear on SpamHaus XBL and SBL blacklists in the morning. The effect was not immediate, as there were huge queues already. However, later that day we have seen the email delays drop from hours down to effectively 0 and this situation continued to stay this way up until 7am today (when this mail is being sent).

Resolved as of 2008-03-13 09:30:00

The login to the Spam appliances is currently broken. This is apparently due to a software upgrade. This problem has been reported to the vendor.

Users will be unable to add, remove or change their e-mail Whitelists/Blacklists.

This does not affect operation of any current e-mail Whitelists/Blacklists.
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