Emergency Maintenance: Security change for outgoing email
Last Updated:
2009-10-23 04:00:00
Event:
2009-10-23 04:00:00
Status:
Closed
Brief Description:
User Impact:
N/A
Workaround:
There is no workaround for this issue
Current Status:
N/A
Services Affected:
Full Description:
An emergency security change that affects outgoing mail was implemented Friday morning. This change affects anyone who has a postoffice email account and whose email application was NOT set to require TLS. Users in this situation may be unable to send mail or may see error messages. This does NOT affect the Exchange email system.
CIT TDX ID:
Timeline of Changes
| Description | Current Status | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documentation on how to find this in your client may be found here http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/emailfaq.html#kerberoswhy. | Documentation on how to find this in your client may be found here http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/emailfaq.html#kerberoswhy. | 2009-10-23 | 04:00:00 |
| The correct settings that will fix this problem are shown here:\n\nEudora: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/eudora/tls.html\n\nThunderbird: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/thunderbird/config.html#security/\n\nApple Mail: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/helpmac/osxmailapp.html\n | The correct settings that will fix this problem are shown here:\n\nEudora: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/eudora/tls.html\n\nThunderbird: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/thunderbird/config.html#security/\n\nApple Mail: http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/email/helpmac/osxmailapp.html\n | 2009-10-23 | 04:00:00 |
| CIT has removed the security change that was made this morning. It will be re-implemented at a time to be announced. | CIT has removed the security change that was made this morning. It will be re-implemented at a time to be announced. | 2009-10-23 | 04:00:00 |