Well, the email migration seems to be going well. The mail seems much better filtered and the open server is quite a bit more responsive than exchange. Migration is a bit odd, but I suspect it's because of my machine. For some reason the NIC is confused and apparently thinks it's in half duplex. I think changing the switch port way back confused it and it just needs a hard reset at some point. Basically what's happening is whenever I select any individual large messages they have issues sorta randomly. Usually they'll work but a few in sequence won't. Where this becomes a problem is when I select a large batch and say move and go do other things I come back and it died halfway and I have to finish it off at another time. Oh well. Thursday lunch was run to target for office treats, and ended up with a couple jars of peanuts. That seems to be something everyone likes, and by the end of the day half a jar was gone. That's what they're there for though. We figured out what's gonna be a semi-massive change in how stuff works for BSSD students, which should be interesting to see how it unfolds. Everything started with wanting to account printing, and has just gotten more complex from there. Thursday night got the insurance stuff for the house sorted out, so ready to go in a week. Now just have to get the utilities all set... Friday started off interesting as the new mailman server decided to confirm the bouncing address again, and ended up dumping 6000 emails into my mailbox (they were all filtered properly, so that wasn't an issue). That should better be phrased as attempted to dump them into my mailbox. Apparently either due to an unfortunate coincidence or the added load pushing the server over the proverbial edge, one mail server suddenly started failing to connect to LDAP and started bouncing all messages requiring LDAP lookup (guess where most of the Bethel to Bethel messages ended up - yep, postmaster got a bit more mail than normal too). We eventually figured out what was happening and shut off that mail server, although then the other server promptly started doing the same thing, so the whole cluster was shut down for a while. Of course after turning off the sendmail queues running in individual messages always looked up fine, so the root problem is still unknown. We did clean up all the mailman messages just in case, but are still suspecting it's either an LDAP or sendmail issue, especially since it handled a bigger hit at a more prime time before and nobody even noticed. We're not testing until we figured why the failure produced 500 error codes rather than 400. It's supposed to do 400 so it is retried later rather than bouncing, because not connecting to LDAP probably isn't a permanant thing... After that I got to import PST files to Maildir. Of course the CD-RW with the PST file had one totally corrupted (wouldn't even copy off the disc from multiple OSes), and another one had two messages that wouldn't move so I'm suspecting the same problem. C1 for lunch, and then miscellaneous stuff. Figured out more details with the actual creating and integrating the new windows domain, which hopefully will go smooth the first time. Then managed to get stumped for a bit with the windows copy not working in a startup script. Oh well, that's next week. In the evening Jeff managed to talk me in to going to the Panther launch. Not sure how since I'm not a mac fanatic or anything, but it was fun. The line moved pretty quick, and was a surprisingly diverse group of people and not just geeks. Saw Ted who I haven't seen in a long time, and even got some cool looking "X" tags. Didn't buy anything, but entered to win a Mac so who knows...