[Lnc-business] Fwd: Email service restored - Important please read

[Robert S. Kraus]

FYI



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Subject: 	Email service restored - Important please read
Date: 	Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:50:12 -0500
From: 	Ken Moellman <ken.moellman at lp.org>
Organization: 	Libertarian National Committee
To: 	chair at lp.org, Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org>, Robert Kraus 
<robert.kraus at lp.org>, Andy Burns <andy.burns at lp.org>, Sean OToole 
<sean.otoole at lp.org>


Email delivery on the shared email server was broken from 4:12PM ET on
Jan 1 through 4:50PM ET on Jan 2. As of 4:50PM ET, email service on the
shared email server is functional again. Some email may be delayed in
its delivery, but little-to-no email should have been lost.  Messages
sent to mailing lists during that time should be checked to verify they
were delivered.

There will be a planned maintenance on Thursday night to complete
additional tasks around the configuration on the mail server.

On Friday December 29th, our mail server was under attack from a Botnet
brute-force attack. Emergency patches were installed on Friday, and
additional anti-spam and anti-hacking measures were put in place on
Saturday and Sunday. One of those changes broke the Webmail interface.
The fix to the Webmail on Monday afternoon broke the mail server itself.
After many hours of repairing the system, we're back online.

Long term, there are a couple of potential solutions being examined to
make it far easier to recover in the future.

Again, my sincerest apologies for the unplanned outage on the email
server.

-- 
Ken C. Moellman, Jr.

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