Mail service move (was: Physical movement of machines preparation)

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 01:28:15AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:

> As I recall I think Vicky already moved tilecache to the new osgeo9 mail container

She moved tilecache.org to web.osgeo9 where it belongs (good!)
I've now also dropped (*.)tilecache.osgeo.org

> Yes drone.osgeo.org should be dropped.  That isn't even used.

Also dropped, so we're left with these pointing at osgeo6:

  - lists.osgeo.org
  - mail.osgeo.org

> > And update the SPF records to include the new IP (this could be already done
> > now).
>
> I think we might have done that already.  Vicky can you confirm?  Or did we do with ansible?

Not done yet, easy to tell:
https://gitea.osgeo.org/sac/ansible-deployment/src/branch/master/deployment/roles/dns-records/defaults/main/spf.yml

> A lot of the data was archived data (crap in home directories  and archives of sites that have long been removed)
> I think Vicky did an analysis of the crons worth keeping and not.  Maybe she can speak about that.

Yes please Vicky, I'm particularly interested in service variable data:

  - mail queue
  - mailman pending confirmations

> Agreed.  I suspect those queues if they haven't been sent yet are just garbage and should be flushed.

Well, it could be people like us who are migrating mail servers, it's
expected by us to keep trying to deliver those emails...

> Probably things like bad email addresses that can't be reached or subscriber spam.

We ALSO have a lot of that, yes, see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3437

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