Successful email server upgrade is online!

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Massive performance increase to email services! Accuraty Solutions staff has successfully moved all email services to a new server feature double the RAM, double the storage and we also went from a single Xeon processor to a screaming dual quad core CPU based on Intel's Nehalem processor architecture. The move was successfully completed between 1am and 4am Saturday morning on 4/03/2010.

Important Email Upgrades Completed

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT

Accuraty has recently upgraded its primary email solution to the version 6.5 release of SmarterMail. This upgrade is significant in two many areas. 1) massive improvement to the spam prevention abilities that are native to the product. In the coming weeks, Accuraty experts will be configuring and tweaking these new tools for maximum effect. 2) Dozens of new and enhanced features have been added to the product including IMAP retreival, smartphone synchronization (ask about Exchange ActiveSync), enhanced advanced Outlook synchronization and collaboration, new reports, customizable event notifications (get an email when your mailbox is 80% full), and we now fully support advanced message archiving compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA regulations.

We are also excited about SmarterMail's new Mailbox Migration and Mail Server Conversion capabilities which make it easier than ever to move to Accuraty's hosted solutions with zero downtime.

Improved Spam Prevention

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:39:24 GMT

Accuraty Solutions has upgraded its Spam prevention to include use of the Barracuda Networks BRBL (pronounced Bar-bell) IP blocking lists via the DNSBL interface. Starting in January 2009, we are more aggressively blocking IP addresses known to send spam.

New Backup Mail Server Online

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Accuraty Solutions has added another mail server to the mix. This one is primarily positioned as a backup mail server, usually used as an MX 20. This means that if your primary mail server is down for a few minutes, mail will go to the backup mail server where it will be stored, waiting until the primary mail server comes back online. This new mail server is physically in Colorado. The other servers are in Kansas and Virginia. This type of wide distribution maximizes uptime and virtually eliminates any possibility of complete service loss for Accuraty and all our clients.

April Fools in November

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Film maker and writer Terry Jones (Monty Python) discovers a colony of penguins, which are unlike any other penguins in the world. The Daily Telegraph (UK) featured a story based on BBC footage of a colony of penguins that flies thousands of miles to the rainforests of South America to sunbathe (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw).

If you feel more comfortable watching it on YouTube, you can find it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4&feature=related

Server and Mail Services Updated

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT

The upgrade resulted in two short outages. One server reboot had the mail services down for about 4 minutes. The actual upgrade and expansion had us down for slightly longer than 15 minutes. All this was done between the hours of 11pm and 2am (late Sat). As always, the backup mail servers were online and caught, held and later delivered any emails that might have come through during those times.

One of the key additions to our spam prevention arsenal moved out of testing and went live also. We are now using a product called invURIBL by Invariant Systems. This amazing tool identifies SPAM by extracting URI's (domain names and IPs in links) from emails and checking them against URI based blacklists. In addition, we have added a unique feature that allows you to check the URI's IP address and remote mail server against Senderbase, the world's leading email traffic monitoring network. Though we already do a good job at Spam defense, this new technique may catch a few more that otherwise would have slipped through the other spam prevention tools we use (SpamAssassin, etc).

The big news on the email services front is that we now support SyncML. It is no secret we use SmarterMail and this upgrade to 5.5 supports the SyncML protocol allowing any SyncML client to synchronize Contacts, Calendars, Tasks and Notes with devices such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Outlook, iPhone, and Thunderbird, etc.

Last but not least, the server itself went from single to dual processor, doubled the RAM and went from a meager 30 GBs of local storage to a massive 300 GB iSCSI RAID5.

Thanks - Accuraty/Jeremy

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Successful email server upgrade is online!

Important Email Upgrades Completed

Improved Spam Prevention

New Backup Mail Server Online

April Fools in November

Server and Mail Services Updated