GUESS WHAT? Service is ready to go, and about damn time! Sales knows what needs to be done - drop them an email or call them up, contact information is on our website. As a legacy type service, none of this is automated. Be patient while we get the accounts set up. Cost is $60 per year without an ipHouse access account (credit card and yearly only, no prorated refunding, no setup fee), or included (by request) if you have an ipHouse access account (access means some type of connectivity account including colocation or other Internet access service). Email addresses are user AT ipshell.com. Legacy customers using the domain of shell.iphouse.com will be transitioned over, a separate email will be going out to them in a bit. The old email addresses ending in said domain will also transition over via forwarding from ipMom or via shell .forward files. The old server will be decommissioned towards the end of March. Sales has the data and things are ready to go. Call them up or drop them email. This is ipHouse service with a twist...normal ipHouse support is *not* included. Instead a dedicated email alias was created. Doug and myself will be doing the support, and I'll be doing the OS and software maintenance. Basic info: Ubuntu server (howler.ipshell.com) FreeBSD server (woolly.ipshell.com) procmail for filtering email stored in Maildir format (home directory) POP/IMAP access (including SSL and STARTTLS) to read email SMTP access (including SSL and STARTTLS) to send email webmail (via Roundcube) via SSL gcc + development libs (I bet something was missed, tell us) tf (fun to see people still playing MUDs) screen (cause it is cool) front-end anti-spam systems do the bulk of the work vi and emacs are installed, of course! NFS storage provided from our production NetApp gear !!BEGIN WARNING!! 2 different servers means 2 different versions of most everything. I have *zero* interest in maintaining hand built matching binaries on each system. Where I could...I matched as best I was able. Maildir creates new challenges to you as the users of the system. I live with Maildir every day, so does Doug, it is easy and simple, but completely different than mbox. The old mbox format is horrendous and locking over NFS is problematic. Maildir supports concurrent access to the mailbox structure via many applications at once. Any and all patching will be done during the business day, and if a reboot is needed, it will be done. I will try to minimize the interruptions to the best of my ability. Access to the mail server itself is forbidden, you work the shell servers, I'll work the mail server. Web services are *not* ready yet, you're welcome to provide us feedback via our shell support address. !!END WARNING!! Systems are virtual, and I'll be monitoring them for performance and tuning as necessary. Disk quotas are quite generous. Please don't abuse world writable temporary areas. -- Mike Horwath ipHouse - Welcome home! [log in to unmask] The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. - Berkeley Fortune