netnotes.denison.edu

Some mail that was received from Denison users since about midnight last night until about 10:30 this morning have been delayed in delivery. They are in the process of being delivered now. We are researching the problem to determine what caused the mail queues on that server to get stuck.

July 17, 12:00: The queue on the affected server has gotten stuck again, we are looking for what is causing the problem. In the meantime, we have changed the address mail.denison.edu on campus so customers can use the functional mailserver. You will probably need to reboot your system to begin using the new address definition.

July 17, 12:30 All mail that was stuck in the queue on the affected server has been processed. The problem seemed to be cuased by the anti-spam software. We are looking at corrections.

Many Denison accounts have received another phishing attempt last night. The message was purportedly from “UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATION MESSAGING CENTER ” with a subject line of “UPDATE YOUR EMAIL NOW” and a To: address of “undisclosed-recipients”. The reply-to address goes to an address at live.com.

Do not respond to this message. Please delete and ignore it. It is an attempt to steal, at minimum, your email account, at maximum, your identity.

A switch failed in Ebaugh at 10:55am 7/1/2008 taking offline the 2nd floor of Ebaugh and a few locations on the 1st floor. The faulty switch was bypassed at 11:10am and the 2nd floor of ebaugh came back online. A replacement switch is being prepared now. Once the replacement switch is in place there will be a brief outage to the 2nd floor as it is brought online. Updates to follow.

UPDATE: Full service has been restored to Ebaugh as of 11:45am 7/1/2008.

Update! Sunday 6/29 12:30pm - Communication problem has been resolved.

Sunday 6/29 11:00am - The Novell media server RHEA is currently experiencing communication problems. We are currently working with Novell to resolve them. You may experience problems connecting to M: drive (Media Workspaces using mac OSX)
More info soon…

Many Denison accounts received another phishing attempt yesterday. The message was purportedly from “www.denison.edu” with a subject line of “VERIFY YOUR DENISION.EDU WEBMAIL ACCOUNT” and a To: address of “undisclosed-recipients”. The reply-to address goes to an address at googlemail.com.

Do not respond to this message. Please delete and ignore it. It is an attempt to steal, at minimum, your email account, at maximum, your identity.

The 3rd floor of Knapp hall is offline. We are currently looking into the issue.

Many Denison accounts have received another phishing attempt last night. The message was purportedly from “UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATION MESSAGING CENTER” or “info@internet2.edu” with a subject of “update your email now” and a To: address of “undisclosed-recipients:;”. The reply-to address goes to an address at live.com.

Do not respond to these messages. Please delete and ignore them. It is an attempt to steal, at minimum, your email account, at maximum, your identity.

Many Denison accounts have received another phishing attempt over the weekend. The message was purportedly from “ITECH SUPPORT” or “helpdesk@denison.edu” with a subject of “VERIFY YOUR DENISON.EDU ACCOUNT” and a To: address of “undisclosed-recipients:;”. The reply-to address goes to an address at yahoo.com.

A second message has also been seen. It is purportedly from “DENSION.EDU TEAM” or “customercare@denison.edu” with a subject of “CONFIRM YOUR DENSION.EDU EMAIL ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY!!!” and a To: address of “undisclosed -recipients: ;”. The reply-to address goes to an address at gmail.com.

Do not respond to these messages. Please delete and ignore them. It is an attempt to steal, at minimum, your email account, at maximum, your identity.

Webmail was down from 3:30pm until about 4:10pm on Wednesday, May 28th due to a Denial of Service attack from several locations on the Internet. The problem addresses were blocked and the service is back up and functioning properly.

Many Denison accounts have received another phishing attempt last night. The message was purportedly from “webmaster” with a subject line of “WebNews Email Account Update” and a To: address of “undisclosed-recipients”. There are 2 versions of the message. One has a full from address of ‘webmaster@wm.edu’, the other has a full from address of ‘webmaster@denison.edu’. The reply-to address goes to an address at y7mail.com.

Do not respond to this message. Please delete and ignore it. It is an attempt to steal, at minimum, your email account, at maximum, your identity.