mail.blacknight.com / smtp1r.cp.blacknight.com emergency maintenance

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Summary: In order to provide a better quality of service to our customers we've decided to step up the installation of the new mailstorage system. We're going to go ahead and do it this evening.

What and When: At 22:30 we'll shutdown inbound e-mail, imap and pop3 access to the qmail cluster. We'll spend around 15-30 minutes confirm the configuration is synchronized between the two machines and finally we'll run one last sync of the data. We kicked off the restore of last nights backup onto the new platform which has taken 10hours or there abouts to complete. We're hoping this will bring huge improvements to e-mail delivery, imap and pop access and especially webmail access.

We've an upgrade of the webmail planned for the near future to to a newer version of Atmail which has better caching support for folders and e-mail.

Update 23:30: Due to delays in the restore completing on time we'll scrub this until tomorrow night around the same time. We'll post a fresh maintenance window tomorrow morning for it.