Here’s one I’ve never seen before: A Groupwise server in our Madison cluster is flooding the network with replica change requests to the point where our server’s MTA is effectively disabled. I’ve had to turn off voicemail and fax synchronization for the time being, and attempts to restart the MTA gracefully have been unsuccessful. Right now Entercom Portland isn’t sending or receiving mail outside our local email server.

The Novell consultant at Corporate is working on the problem in Madison, then is supposed to call me to see about getting our machine back online once more. It may be a really, really long day. I won’t be too bored, of course, since I have a computer to rebuild at 4:30. Ah yes, we can’t forget about the fun I’ll have answering questions like “Is email not working?” every ten minutes until closing time.