~~~~ Forum Announcement ~~~~ Problem with UCLA.edu addresses

[AnandTech Moderator]

To all UCLA students:

We are getting a lot of new registrations and subscription updates returned with an error message:

<*****@ucla.edu>... Deferred: Connection refused by cougar.noc.ucla.edu.

This means that new members are not getting their passwords, and the subscription updates are flooding our mailbox.

If your email address is @ucla.edu, please contact your Sys Admin about this.

New members, and do expect to recieve your password until this problem is resolved. Once the problem is fixed, you can go to the login window and click Forget your login information? and your password will be emailed to you.

Current members, please cancel your present subscription updates, and do not subscribe to any more threads until the problem is fixed.

Thank you,

AnandTech Moderator

 

[dtran42]

i have a ucla.edu e-mail address, i think this was caused in the last day or so because the ucla.edu host was down for a day, it is now back up, so everything should be working fine now....

 

[leiz]

there was an announcement from ucla regarding a scheduled downtime for a hardware upgrade, no need to panic:



08/21/2000: Bruin OnLine POP Mail Server outage 9/03/2000

The Bruin OnLine POP Mail Server (pop.bol.ucla.edu &amp; pop.ucla.edu) will be down for a hardware upgrade during the
following hours:

9/03/2000 12:00am (Midnight) - 12:00pm (Noon)

Users will be unable to retrieve mail via a POP3 client (Eudora, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger), or Pine using
bol.ucla.edu.

In addition, users will be unable to access the following functions via bol.ucla.edu during this outage period:

Password changes
Forwarding address changes
Vacation notice changes

If you experience problems after the scheduled outage, please email consult@ucla.edu.

 

[Croton]

the ucla email server was down for the weekend, but now it is up and running

dang! i thought that u were gonna ban the ucla.edu domain, mod!

whew!