It would have been nice when IT does this that they tell us - better yet
> that they give us a good email system (OWS is terrible in so many ways).
From IT Services: There's an on-going attack against the
mailgate.sfu.ca server, that's disrupting the service.
A workaround has been put in place:
- Since the attacks are focused only on SMTP Port 465, we've set up a
separate mail service on the other mail ports, port 25 and 587.
- Note that Ports 25 and 587 use the StartTLS SSL protocol, rather than
native SSL.
- If you are still having issues with your Thunderbird, workaround is to
connect to SFU VPN first then send your email.
- where possible, adopt a mail client that can speak native Exchange
protocols, such as Outlook or Apple Mail. Most mobile mail clients also
support ActiveSync, which is an Exchange-native protocol.
On 2023-10-31 12:15 p.m., Steve DiPaola wrote:
> Gmail to SFU email getting rejected or bouncing? read on
>
>
> Many of us faculty and students ( literally 1000s and 1000s), use
> our gmail account to connect to the SFUmail (OWS) to send and receive
> email. I have had scores of rejected email in the last few weeks - worse
> they only announce the rejection days later. I finally found out
> that SFU IT ( because of a spam issues) changed a port on the
> gmail forwarding settings ( was 465 - now is 25 and TLS) and told no one
> - hence important email never got out. I only know this
> is happening for gmail but it probably this is an issue with other
> email systems that use this port too.
>
>
> If this rejected email is happening to you. Go to gmail settings /
> Accounts / your sfu.ca account and go through the settings making the
> port 25 using systems TLS. (or like minded settings on your non
> SFU email system)
>
>
> It would have been nice when IT does this that they tell us - better yet
> that they give us a good email system (OWS is terrible in so many ways).
> Yes there is an issue with not using a Canada only email system -
> checking with my students, almost all do, mainly because how bad OWS is
> (and in my tests OWS has data that does not stay in Canada too).
>
>
>
>
> - Steve DiPaola, PhD - -
> - Prof: Sch of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT);
> - Fellow: Royal Society of Canada (College)
> - - Simon Fraser University - -
> research site: ivizlab.sfu.ca <http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/research>
> art work site: www.dipaola.org/art <http://www.dipaola.org/art>
> - -
> At Simon Fraser University, we live and work on the unceded traditional
> territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),
> Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), ( SFU Surrey:)
> Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm), Qayqayt, Musqueam
> (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Tsawassen, and numerous Stó:lō Nations.
>
--
Ralph Mistlberger, PhD
Graduate Program Chair
Department of Psychology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby BC Canada V5A 1S6