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Re: Mail handling

 

Hello,
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 00:20, Lars Kruse <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> as discussed in the IRC meetings, we moved the mail handling for
> @libravatar.org to a tech collective, that I am involved with
> (https://systemausfall.org/).
>
>
> = service-related addresses =
>
> The following mail addresses are configured:
>  accounts
>  admin
>  dev
>  dns
>  mirrors
>  security
>  social
>  support
>  tls
>
> All of these are currently redirected to fmarier.
>
> @fmarier: at some point we surely want to change this (e.g. adding more
> recipients or removing your address, if you would prefer that).
> Do you have an idea, whether we should do this now or rather do it as soon
> as
> the new implementation is online?
>
>
> = mail-related addresses =
>
> abuse@ and postmaster@ are received by the project administrating the mail
> service.
>
>
> = private mail addresses =
>
> We had a longer discussion during the IRC meeting, whether we want to
> provide
> private mail addresses to members of the project. There was a slight
> tendency
> towards allowing these (with some reluctance by others).
>
> For historical reasons there is already francois@ for fmarier (the
> existence of
> this mail forwarding was not disputed).
> nipos already asked for such a forwarding. It is configured now.
>
> Anyone else who is active in the project is also welcome to get such a mail
> forwarding. Just send a mail to this list (for transparency) and I will
> configure them
>

Yes, I would Iike to get clime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx forwarded to
clime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.


>
> = technical details =
>
> There are no real mailboxes configured for the mail domain. All addresses
> are
> configured for forwarding only.
> Thus mail submission (SMTP) from mail addresses of this domain has to be
> done
> by manually configuring this FROM address in your mail client and by using
> the
> SMTP server one of your other mail providers. This should usually work
> without
> a problem.
> SPF records for the libravatar.org domain are configured by fmarier in a
> relaxed
> way in order to not punish mails coming from other MX hosts.
>
>
> = documentation =
>
> For transparency and documentation, I would volunteer to summarize the mail
> handling of the domain in the wiki (https://wiki.libravatar.org/). I would
> provide the following details there:
> * currently configured service-related mail addresses (see above) and their
>   recipients
> * currently configured private mail addresses
> * hints for sending mails from @libravatar.org
> * hint regarding the mail provider / contact address for mail related
> issues
>
> In order to work around spambot crawlers, I would not mention real mail
> addresses, but just local parts and verbal descriptions of recipients.
>
> Do you have any hints or objections regarding this documentation?
> (I will interpret silence as approval)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
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