Greetings, If you’re a regular user of our easySMTP service at “mailout.easydns.com” you’ve probably noticed that it’s been sketchy for the last couple of days, usually during peak times in the middle of the day! The first part of the problem we’ve identified; we have had a couple of power users inadvertently pound our servers. […]
mailout.easydns.com blip
Greetings, We had a brief blip on the outbound mail system for “legacy” retail users at the address mailout.easydns.com. We have restarted the responsible service and mail should be flowing again without issue. Thanks for your patience. [UPDATE – September 1 @ 1:40pm] – This issue has been resolved. More details about what steps are […]
"Greylisting" on the new mail system
Greetings, The “Greylisting” service on the new mail system has been disabled for the moment as we troubleshoot some odd results we have been getting with it. Customers should expect a little bit more spam, but we hope to have the weirdness ironed out by this weekend. [UPDATE – September 1 @ 1:39pm] – Greylisting […]
Database maintenance: Friday August 13th at 1:00am EST
The easyDNS systems admin team will be conducting some database maintenance on Friday August 13th at 1:00am EST. The downtime should last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, ending at approximately 2:00am EST the same day at the latest. During this time, access to the new easyDNS interface (Caprica) will be disabled. The old easyDNS interface […]
Database maintenance: Sunday July 25th at 1:00am EST
The easyDNS systems admin team will be conducting some database maintenance on Sunday July 25th at 1:00am EST. The downtime should last between 1 to 2 hours, ending at approximately 3:00am EST the same day. During this time, access to both the Retail and Caprica easyDNS interfaces will be disabled. We apologise for any inconvenience. [UPDATE […]
Interesting Internet Storm Center post
Greetings, I came across an interesting (and alarming) post at the Internet Storm Center, and I am passing it along. If you, too, are a Systems Administrator, or a person who is responsible for mail systems take extra note. If you’re not; look out for the following subject lines as they might be bogus. ARTICLE […]
