Move complete

10 January 2009 | 11:32 | Site News | No Comments

Comcast are kind of slow, and there may still be some DNS lag, but if you are reading this, then the server move has been successful.  If not… well, how would you know?

UPDATE: Just to be a little more clear, the connection from Comcast is fine.  They just didn’t have everything setup on their end when the tech came to install the line.  So it took a little extra time to get everything set up.

That is all.



Server move - update

7 January 2009 | 16:35 | Site News | No Comments

Alright, the server will be moving on Friday, January 9th.  You may experience difficulty accessing the server Friday or Saturday; after that, things should clear up.  Please let me know if you have any questions.



Moving

5 January 2009 | 16:06 | Site News | No Comments

We are moving the server home from it’s secure, undisclosed location.

This means you might see a short disruption in server accessibility sometime in the next couple of weeks.  This will affect you’re ability to read email, but should not result in any lost messages.  Everything else (domain names, etc.) should not see any differences.

We will keep you informed here of any changes or major issues, as much as possible.

Thanks!



SSL certificate updated

6 June 2008 | 10:14 | Service Updates | No Comments

It’s self-signed, so you will still have to accept the certificate once, but now that the dates are valid you shouldn’t have to accept every time you want to check your email through the web interface.



Spam blocking changes

1 June 2008 | 16:54 | Service Updates | No Comments

I’ve made three changes to our spam blocker (spamassassin):

  1. Changed the score threshold from 5.0 to 4.0
  2. Changed the value of RDNS_NONE to 4.0
    (Combined with the other change, this will block messages that come from unregistered servers, unless there are other factors)
  3. Changed the rule update to run daily

Hopefully this will reduce, although it will not completely stop, the level of spam we are seeing.

Please let me know if you start seeing legitimate email getting lost in your spam folders!



Support

31 May 2008 | 13:10 | Site News | No Comments

I should like to state for the record, please do let me know (by email, text, whatever) if you have any issues or questions regarding the server or the email service, especially if anything appears to be broken.  I may not always respond to your requests in a timely fashion, but I do try :)



Welcome to the new Silicon Ashes blog

12 May 2008 | 10:49 | Site News | No Comments

I’ll be providing news and updates here.  Links to the webmail client and hosted sites and blogs will appear in the link list.  Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions!