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November 12, 2004

Mail server consolidation, part II

As promised, Sun IT folk moved my mail to a big server. I was pleasantly surprised, expecting things to go wrong, and they didn't for the most part.

I had one filter break. The error message said something about the filter being too complex. Maybe there's a configurable limit I exceeded somewhere. I get the impression the filtering was being done on the server side through IMAP, since I'm using the very same version of Thunderbird that worked before the transition. So I quit Thunderbird, split the filter manually in msgFilterRules.dat, and restarted Thunderbird. Appears to work fine now.

The big server seems snappier. That'll probably only continue until they move everyone over, however.

Posted by Mark at November 12, 2004 03:15 PM