Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

May 2005

• May 20, 2005 11:30am. Something a little strange is happening with outgoing email. While it appears to users that mail is being sent, it's actually stalling at the server. You can use MailMan if you have urgent mail that needs to be sent. Incoming mail isn't affected. JP is working on the problem now.
  1:00pm. All is fine at this time. Mail was being delayed due to a customer's infected computer pumping 193,000 pieces of virus and spam at our outgoing email server.
• May 18, 2005 5:50pm. New spam filtering features were installed to slow the tide of German spam.
• May 18, 2005 3:40pm. A router was changed for our Belfast wireless network. A few Belfast customers may need to restart their firewalls if this interupts service.
• May 13, 2005 1:00-2:15am. Saucer.midcoast.com was down for some unscheduled repair work during this time. (The server's hardware was replaced). This affected webmail use and proxy server use during this time.
• May 11, 2005 11:10am. Midcoast.com email addresses starting with the letter z,k,d, and r have been moved to an upgraded email server.
• May 8, 2005 11:00am-12:30pm. Saucer.midcoast.com was down for some unscheduled repair work during this time. This affected webmail use and proxy server use during this time.