A power outage caused a short interruption in service in the early evening of June 9. We were running on backup generators until power was restored early in the morning 10 June.

Customers running Debian servers or their derivatives are vulnerable to a security flaw in Debian's implementation of the OpenSSL cryptographic subsystem.

We will be providing immediate updates and fixes to customer systems at no charge to address these vulnerabilities.

If Orbis Lumen manages your systems, these updates will occur without your intervention. Otherwise, please contact us to receive your fixes.

Due to the insane amount of spam being generated lately, and the fact that many spammers choose to relay through backup MX servers instead of primary mail servers directly, all Orb backup MX servers are now consulting real-time blackhole lists to deny email relaying from known or suspected spam relays.

Please contact us if you would prefer your backup mail handling bypassing blackhole lists.

Customers using Orbis Lumen servers for tertiary MX or DNS servers should be aware that we have just rebuilt the server.

There will be a few very short service interruptions tonight as servers are upgraded with new kernels.

The script we use to upgrade Wordpress installations was released to you all a while ago. It is now being brought here to the Orb website so that it can be maintained easier.

It seems there are some people who find it useful. My thanks for the helpful feedback!

Servers are being updated tonight with kernel updates which will cause the temporary and highly intermittent loss of various system services until approximately 22:00 PST tonight.

These updates and subsequent system reboots are necessary to apply security fixes.

The problem with the IMAP server has been fixed.

We're currently experiencing problems with the IMAP server after a system upgrade. Working to fix this as quickly as possible.

In a recent LinuxWorld Antivirus "showdown", ClamAV received a perfect score.

Customers who have elected to scan their incoming and outgoing email on their mail servers are using the ClamAV antivirus system.