By default your wired e-mail gets forwarded to your university email address.
However if you wish to manage your wired e-mail separately then this guide will tell you how.

All of wired's services will be taken offline for scheduled maintenance at around 2pm tomorrow (Friday 5th) to allow an OS upgrade to be performed on smoked. The maintenance should only take about 30 mins but it may take longer. As such the maintenance window is from 1:30pm until 3:30pm.

While some of you may have fuzzy memories about what happened last night... wired.st-andrews.ac.uk had none. (Actually, who am I kidding with the "fuzzy memory" thing, we're a computer science society - we don't do social so well!)

Anyway, for whatever reason (a brief power interruption has been suggested), some of WiredSoc's services were offline during the early hours of this morning.

Based on the fact you are reading this message, you will have assumed everything is back up and running. Well, thankfully, it's a correct assumption.

Marc Steele
WiredSoc President (an overly grand title if you ask me!)

As not doubt most of you will now be aware we recieved the following email from ITS:

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We have an email from copyright compliance agents for The Teaching Company. The
gist of the message follows:

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Evidentiary Information:
Notice ID: 1933318
Asset: Teaching Company
Protocol: BitTorrent
IP Address: 138.251.10.18
DNS: wired.st-and.ac.uk
File Name: TTC - Economics (compressed)
File Size: 2574934664
Timestamp: 31 Jan 2010 08:04:06 GMT
Last Seen Date: 31 Jan 2010 08:04:06 GMT

Wireds Services will be interrupted for a second time due to the second scheduled power cut by Scottish power on the north haugh.

We are going to take this opportunity to start work on replacing one of the servers.

As a result of this and the locking of the computer science buildings overnight for the powercut. Services will be unavailable from approximately 5pm tomorrow until 3pm Saturday.

No services will be available during this time (all the boxes will be switched off)

There will be a short interuption to wireds services this afternoon whilst scottish power carries out some works on the north haugh. It should start from about 13:00. and finish before 15:00.

There will also be a longer powercut on friday evening into saturday.

Well, our first meeting on Tuesday didn't seem to go too badly. Thanks to everyone that turned up and I do hope to see you at more of these events in the future.

As a committee, we now have an idea of what you want from your society. We found it beneficial and hope you did to.

Anyway, these meetings are a regular thing. We run them every week at 1900 on Tuesdays in Salad Bowl 3 (door nearest Venue 2 on the top floor of the union). I do hope to see you all at some point over the next few weeks, even just to say hello.

New equipment has arrived and is currently being configured.

The new box is to replace smoked and the current plan is for smoked to be used at gaming events and other situations where we need equipment to take with us. The switch over will hopefully happen in the next two weeks at which point there will need to be some downtime of all of wired services (except IRC) whilst we move the new kit into smoked's box. A full announcement of when this will happen will be made on IRC and here on the website.

In other news the first meeting of WiredSoc will be on the 29th of September. (Location to be confirmed)

Following the problems with smoked over the last few days email should now be back to normal. Exim (the mail transfer agent) was down for less than 5 hours yesterday evening meaning that any emails sent when it was down would have been (or should have been) resend by the sender.

The actual deliveries to users have resumed delivering all waiting emails (for example I have just got emails sent to me on thursday).

This fix will hopefully hold until we get a new box in.

On slightly related note.
I have implemented a system-wide filter with deletes all emails that the university mailserver this are spam (the precise definition for the filter is Where subject starts with "{Spam?}"). This should dramatically reduce the amount of spam received.

However this is currently only a trial run so if any one has problems with false positives (legitimate emails not received) let me know and I'll investigate.