[volunteers] System was near RAM exhaustion

[Andrew Fife]

Edward Cherlin wrote:

> What we need is the long-promised, never-finished "new"
> (well,
> replacement, anyway) server using _packaged_ software that
> can be kept
> up to date, with current "(small, fast, C-based) Exim4
> rulesets". Then
> we will not be depending on an old, creaky, unmaintainable
> set of
> software that is inadequate to our present needs.

Who promised what when?  Would you like to help?
 
> Andrew, how is that going?

Ed, I believe you have been copied on multiple offlist messages detailing the progress of the mail server migration project.  For the benefit of other volunteers, Tom Belote has been working on migrating SVLUG's mail server to newer hardware off and on over the last 3 weeks.  Transferring mailman settings is tricky and while he has been able to migrate the archives other things such as the list info pages are proving to be difficult.  The migration is not a trivial project and its difficult to say exactly when it will be complete.  Don Marti has now agreed to work with Tom on the project and hopefully between the two of them we can make a bit more progress.