Email System Upgrade
Over the next few weeks and months the SCS Facilities team will be further modernizing our existing email infrastructure to make it faster, more compatible and more robust than ever. Old, obsolete components will be upgraded to bring our email system in step with the latest widely supported standards and protocols.
This page is intended to be a clearing house for all information and resources regarding this transition. Here users will find a brief overview and explanation, in lay terms, of what is essentially a very technical, largely behind-the-scenes system upgrade.
What we're improving, and why
This upgrade can be broken down into three major components:- MMDF will be replaced by Sendmail (What's the difference?)
- White Pages will be replaced by LDAP (What's the difference?)
- .maildelivery files will be replaced by Sieve.
What will not change?
- This system upgrade will have no affect on your email program. You will continue to check your email as you always have.
- This change will not affect how you authenticate to retrieve and read your email. The passwords that you type will remain the same.
- This change will not affect where your email is delivered. For example, if you email is delivered to imap.srv.cs.cmu.edu, that is where it will continue to be delivered. If your mail is delivered to a UX machine, you will continue to receive mail there until that particular machine is retired, in which case you will be notified directly, well in advance, and a plan to move you to a new machine will be implemented by the Help Desk.
What might change?
- What might change is the email addresses that others use to contact you and the underlying support to get that email delivered to your mailbox.
- .maildelivery files will become obsolete. .maildelivery functionality (things like vacation auto-response and auto-filing of email messages) will be provided by custom Sieve scripts.
- The UX machines will eventually be retired. Click here for details.