On Thursday night, catalpa.forest.net (smtp.forest.net) suffered a hard drive failure at approximately 7pm PST. Currently we are spooling the mail for the accounts hosted on this machine on another mail server and we have pointed smtp.forest.net to another mail server located at digital.forest. In the meantime we are migrating all the affected accounts over to another mail server.

Accounts on other email servers such as treehouse, palm (infoasis) and ninewire are not affected unless their mail client's outbound (SMTP) server is set to smtp.forest.net. If this is the case please change the outbound SMTP to the same as your incoming (POP3 or IMAP) mail server. Be sure to enable SMTP authentication in your mail client when you make this change.

We currently do not have an estimated time of repair, but we anticipate that we will have the affecting customers moved over quickly.

If there any updates concerning catalpa.forest.net we will post them here as soon as they are available.

digital.forest technical support

We have almost completed server moves to our new Seattle facility. Our DNS and mail servers will be moving over the next few nights. At this rate, we may be able to shut down the Bothell facility as early as next week after the weekend moves complete.

We will post updates concerning the mail servers at least 12 hours before we move them.

We have updated some software on catalpa.forest.net to increase security on the server. In particular, Apache has been updated to version 1.3.26. This should have no effect on mail services running on catalpa.forest.net (aka "smtp.forest.net").