Mail server faces heavier load
Last Monday, emergency maintenance was performed on the student mail server. The load on this system, responsible for the electronic mail of all UT students, has increased dramatically over the last couple of months and has prevented the prompt delivery of some mail. In some cases, it took over four hours for a message to be processed. According to Igor Ybema, Systems and Network Manager at the Institute of Information Technology, Library and Education (ITBE), the system now appears capable of handling the load.
The problems started right after the summer holiday. `We still have not been able to pinpoint the exact cause. I think it is because of the increasing use of webmail, an application that makes it possible to read mail from anywhere using a web browser. Webmail leaves e-mail on the server and thus causes a higher load,' Ybema explains.
