Sorry to alarm you, I meant to type November 3rd, not the 30th.

A request was made for email to give a vacation-like autoresponse during the downtime.  That is a good idea, and is technically possible because cgl.ucsf.edu's incoming mail servers will still be up while plato is down.

The idea would be for users to setup an autoresponse with https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/ -- you can do that regardless to automatically forewarn your correspondents while plato is still up.  Then, in a way yet to be determined, that setup would be replicated on cgl.ucsf.edu's incoming mail servers.

An easy alternative, is to forward all of your email to another email address.   If that appeals to you, send me your alternative email addresses and whether you want (A) your email to be permanently forwarded there, (B) you want your email temporarily forwarded there during the downtime, or (C) you want your email temporarily forwarded there with a copy sent to plato when it comes up.  If the autoresponse replication idea works, it would replace options B and C (because you choose the forwarding you want in the autoresponse setup).

    -- Greg

Just a heads up that plato will be down starting October 30th and might not be back up until November 30th.  We expect to be back up earlier, but can't guarantee it.  This is because plato depends on Wynton's BeeGFS network filesystem, and that is going to be upgraded then.   For reference, the Wynton announcement is included below.
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