Email and Messaging

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The Applications Group (TAG)

E-mail and Messaging

Provide reliable e-mail and calendaring infrastructure;
Support and maintain central production, development, and test Unix and Exchange E-mail servers;
Maintain virus scanning and spam tag/quarantine services;
Provide Instant Messaging server;
Test new e-mail technologies.

Responsibility

Teresa Downey (teresa.downey@slac.stanford.edu)
Mary Crume (mjcrume@slac.stanford.edu)
Joseph Puig (jbpuig@slac.stanford.edu) - SCS HelpDesk Group - Providing Majordomo support

Ongoing Support

Second level troubleshooting and support for admins and end users

Authoring and maintenance of e-mail server and supported client web pages for SLAC users

Exchange account/resource/distribution-list creation

Majordomo mailing list support

Liaison with Stanford Campus for Internet News services

Current Projects

Task	Status	Priority
SPAM quarantine feature of PureMessage	Pilot Started early 12/04; goes production 2/14/05	Medium
RPC over HTTP - reduces need for VPN to just access Outlook Email	Server update 1/20/05 - then testing begins	Medium
Monitoring of Exchange Servers	Waiting for training from Windows group	Medium
New Instant Message Server - uses SIP	On hold until Monitoring Task is complete	Medium
Authenticated/Secure SMTP - requested by Security and GLAST	Testing with limited number of users	Low

Research Areas

Email Server Status Web Page - hoping we can get this functionality from NetIQ

Reconfiguration of E-mail web site for easier navigation

References

Last Updated: January 19, 2005