[OPLINTECH] OPLIN e-mail failure

[Chad Neeper]

Ouch.  Thanks for the info.

That's a sinking feeling when you're in the middle of it and watching the
server not do what it's supposed to. I don't wish that feeling on anyone!

This is probably early and you may not be ready to announce, but any
thoughts to set up another mail server and web front-end available to all
libraries, or are you getting out of that game entirely? Knowing that will
help to decide what to do.

Thanks,
Chad

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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Karl Jendretzky <karljendretzky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Everything besides the Zimbra server is running properly.
>
> The Zimbra server was running Ubuntu 10, which is reaching end of life and
> needed updated. The server was pushed to Ubuntu 14, and a patch was run on
> Zimbra to bring it up to date, but after the patching finished the 80GB
> LDAP database was corrupted. Attempts to fix the corrupted database failed.
> Backups were restored, and a small patch was attempted to bring it up to
> U14, but once again there were LDAP issues. A new Ubuntu 10 mail server was
> built, and the exact version of Zimbra for the backups was installed, and
> the backup data was put in place, but failed. Each step was slightly
> different errors.
>
> My thought is that the Zimbra server went through many updates through
> it's life, and at some point some of the data went out of spec just enough
> that it could only ever run on the exact U10 environment that it had. That
> U10 environment no longer exists.
>
> Zimbra is a nasty beast. It uses many packages, but none are the
> repository default packages. All are bundled with Zimbra, and all work just
> the way Zimbra wants them to, meaning that support resources are sparse.
>
> The only thing that the Zimbra server was doing was personal email
> accounts.
>
> -Karl Jendretzky
>
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