This note is just to give some instant feedback if you are having trouble after the change. Please see the announcements page or the discussions in the mv.forum.dialip newsgroup for more detailed and accurate discussion of the moves.

Original announcement:

Many POP mailboxes will be moved to a different server on Sunday
afternoon, May 12.  As long as you have been properly configuring
your mail programs, this change should not affect you.  In order
to minimize the impact of this change, read on:

1. You should make sure that you specify the POP server by its proper
   name.  The POP server is the server at MV that holds the mail that
   you receive until you fetch it using your mail program.  By using
   the proper name for the server, it won't matter to you if the
   actual server changes: its name will remain the same.  So, for
   example, if you are a Salem user, you should use the server
   named "pop-snh.mv.net" .  Make sure you are NOT using a name that
   isn't some form of "pop-xxx.mv.net" (*), for instance don't
   use "mv.mv.com" and don't use an IP address like 192.80.84.3 .

   (*) Many Litchfield users are using "pop.mv.net" rather than
   "pop-lnh.mv.net" .  "pop.mv.net" will continue to work, but the
   "pop-lnh.mv.net" form is preferred.

2.  You should make sure that you have the correct return address
    configured into your mail program.  For instance, if you access
    the Keene location and your site name is "somesite.mv.com" and
    your own email name is "josephine," you will probably have a POP
    mailbox named "somesite-jo" on the POP server "pop-knh.mv.net" .
    Make sure your email address (what shows up in the From: line on
    any mail that you send) is "josephine@somesite.mv.net" and not the
    name of your POP mailbox (i.e., not "somesite-jo@mv.mv.com" or
    another variation of that).  When somebody sends you mail, they
    will send it to "josephine@somesite.mv.com" -- only YOU need to
    know the name of the POP mailbox that the mail is put into for you
    to read it.  If you have your return address misconfigured as
    something like "somesite-jo@mv.mv.com" , and someone tried to send
    you a reply, it may have happened to work in the past, but only
    accidentally.

3.  Not necessary for this event, but it is a good idea to make sure
    that you specify the proper name for the SMTP mail server that you
    are using.  i.e. use "mail-knh.mv.net" rather than "bort.mv.net"
    and so forth.  (The SMTP mail server is the server that accepts
    the mail that you send out, so that it can deliver it.)

This move is likely to take several hours on that date (Sunday, May 12).
During this time, you won't be able to access your POP mailboxes,
and mail will be blocked from arriving until the move is complete.
(Any mail that has been blocked should arrive afterwards.)

Note: these configuration notes do not apply to shell accounts or
shell mailboxes, even if the mail to your IP account address is
delivered to your shell account mailbox.  If you are using the POP
protocol to read mail from your shell mailbox (even if it's being used
as a mailbox for your IP account), you will need to make sure that you
use the shell server, and not the POP server, to pick up that mail.
Having your IP account mail delivered to your shell mailbox is a
fairly special case, and you're likely to know about it if it applies
to you; it's also not likely if you've had your account for less than
a year or have never had a shell account.