RoundCube developers, users and list lurkers,
the machine running the RC mailing lists and archive has just been down for a little over 24 hours. This happened after what was supposed to be routine 10 minutes downtime while moving to out new server-room. Needles to say, things didn't go as planed.
Apparently the Linux ext3 file system does not handle large folders all that well, and I had one with at least a million files in it. This pissed off fsck.ext3 to the point where it started to move these files to lost+found.
Long story short, I no longer trust that machine (or any machine with an ext3 file system on it) to do any important work, and one of it's most important tasks is the RC mailing lists and archive.
So; as I don't really have the time to do mailing list maintenances these days, I'd like to ask for someone to take over the running/hosting of our lists.
The 3 lists require very little resources to run. Some stats:
announce@lists.roundcube.net:
- 1958 subscribers
- 1 to 2 messages/month
dev@lists.roundcube.net:
- 629 subscribers
- 5 to 15 messages/day
users@lists.roundcube.net:
- 474 subscribers
- 3 to 10 messages/day
Anyone interested please get back to me as soon as possible. Please also include a short introduction detailing your experience with e-mail systems in general and mailing lists in particular.
I'll discuss potential candidates with the lead developers, and post back as soon as we've make a decision.
Thanks for your time,
Bob (mailing list administrator)