During the past two days UMBC’s mail servers have suffered two outages. Yesterday, the outage lasted from 4:00AM to 1:30PM. Today we suffered another outage that has affected one half of our e-mail users. At this time we expect our systems to be restored by 3:00PM, Tuesday, November 15, 2005.
We are in the process of working with outside groups to help us diagnose the problem. One of the measures we are taking is to introduce debugging scripts into our mail systems to help us diagnose the cause of these failures.
At this time we have not definitively identified the problem. As such there is the possibility that we could have further outages until we have identified the bug. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may be causing.