Hi Christoph, Thank you for your efforts!
Updating Drupal is definitely a good idea! ;-) Will those git repos allow us to change things like links and graphics? Kind regards, Matthias Am 02.06.2017 um 20:25 schrieb Christoph Weber: > Hello everyone, > > I am going to help with email reconfiguration of the > templates.openoffice.org and extensions.openoffice.org Drupal sites we host > for you at SourceForge. As some of you may know, SourceForge is shutting > down its regular email sending service from Project Web due to changing > electronic messaging and privacy requirements around the world. See > attached email message below, and also https://sourceforge.net/blog/ > sourceforge-project-e-mail-policy-update/ > > First off, almost no action is required on your part, we are offering to do > the footwork for you in as much as possible. We are an experienced Drupal > team here at SourceForge HQ, only some DNS admin stuff will be required on > the part of the Apache Infra team. So here's the plan: > > We propose to hook up your templates.openoffice.org and > extensions.openoffice.org Drupal sites to the free tier plan at > Sparkpost.com (up to 100,000 emails/month). It's an easy change in the > backend of your sites. The Apache Infra team (or whoever controls DNS for > these two subdomains) will need to verify domain ownership with a couple of > DKIM records, and then you are pretty much set. > > Beyond that change, it is time to update your Drupal sites to the latest > Drupal core version and apply other security updates. Again, we can take > care of that for you. We will likely start git repos for both sites to ease > the workflow and allow a modicum of control. > > Thoughts, comments, ideas? Shoot them my way please. > Thanks, > > Christoph Weber, Director of Technology > SourceForge Media LLC, San Diego CA 92113 - 858-454-5900 > > --- start attached email --- > > Dear SourceForge project owner, > > As a result of changing electronic messaging and privacy requirements > around the world, SourceForge will implement a number of changes that will > affect your project. Please review the following carefully and make > necessary changes before June 26, 2017. > > SourceForge will stop support for email sending from your Project Web space. > > That includes all transactional email from systems such a Wordpress, > Drupal, and similar. Since we also block outbound connections due to past > abuse (see > https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project% > 20Web%20and%20Developer%20Web/#outbound-connectivity), > it will not be possible to use email services such as MailChimp, and thus > no way to send email from your project web site. > > We deeply regret having to bring this functionality to end of life, but > since we cannot verify or control this type of email traffic going out from > the sourceforge.net domain, compliance with new electronic messaging and > privacy laws makes it impossible to continue the service. > > Please also refer to our full blog post at > https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-project-e-mail-policy-update/ > If you have any questions and/or need further help making these adjustments > please email supp...@sourceforge.net. > > Thank you for your understanding and continued support, > > The SourceForge team
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