Hi, Is this a good whimsy project?
Craig > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> > Subject: Why we need qmail owner files for all committers > Date: August 24, 2016 at 10:25:41 PM PDT > To: Apache Infrastructure <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> > > Simply put, every time a sender, whose domain has an SPF rule ending in -all, > tries to email a user at their apache.org address, the message will bounce > when qmail attempts to deliver to the final destination server. This is > because modern mail forwarders are required by the SPF framework to rewrite > the SMTP envelope sender to originate from an address on the intermediate > forwarding domain. It is notoriously difficult for users to track down the > origin of the problem because the envelope sender rewriting needs to happen > on the recipient's account with us, even though the crux of the problem is > with the sending domain's strict SPF rule. > > Fortunately most major domain owners refrain from going all in with SPF and > simply use ~all, which means the SPF records aren't authoritative. However, > many (like microsoft.com or recently gmx.de) do use strict SPF, so their > attempts to contact committers directly will get rejected as described above. > > This issue can be put to bed squarely in about 5 minutes of script testing > and implementation. Just do an ldapsearch on the uid, and xarg that list to > the qmail-owner-setup.sh script in ~apmail/bin. Problem solved for the > existing committers. Just add a call to the script for new users as well > during account creation, and you'll never have to worry about it again. > > Craig L Russell Architect [email protected] P.S <mailto:[email protected]>. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
