There are some situations where you do have to use the @apache.org mail address, mostly for configuring some of the ASF services. But you don't have to use it for dev@ or private@ or other ASF mailing lists.
-- Brane On 17.01.2015 11:09, Sergi Vladykin wrote: > Is it important to send emails from @apache.org address? Why can't we keep > original "from"? > > Sergi > > regards, > Sergi Vladykin > > 2015-01-17 5:38 GMT+03:00 Dmitriy Setrakyan <[email protected]>: > >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 17.01.2015 03:25, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> On 17.01.2015 00:48, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> All the committers for Ignite project have apache.org address >> assigned >>>>> to >>>>>> them. You can configure your Gmail to have to addresses, so you can >>> pick >>>>>> from which address to send an email. >>>>>> >>>>>> To do so, go to Settings->Accounts->"Add another email address you >> own" >>>>> and >>>>>> specify [email protected] email address. When you complete this >> process, >>>>> you >>>>>> will be able to select form which address to send your emails. >>>>> That is not enough. Mails sent from @apache.org addresses must be >>>>> relayed through the ASF mail servers; sending them from Google's >> servers >>>>> won't work, you have to configure GMail to use the ASF relays. See >> here: >>>>> https://reference.apache.org/committer/email >>>>> >>>>> The problem with that is that you have to let Google store your ASF >>>>> password. That's kind of dicey because that password also controls >> your >>>>> access to Git and a number of other services. >>>>> >>>> When I specified apache.org email, google filled out all the ASF relay >>>> settings automatically. >>> Really? You didn't need to enter your ASF password? Well, that's new >>> then; someone should tell Infra to update their docs. :) >>> >> I had to enter the ASF password, but all other settings were filled out >> automatically. >> >> >>> -- Brane >>> >>>
