right this is an Infra issue and not a whimsy one.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is this a good whimsy project?
>
> Sounds to me like the first part is literally:
>
> ldapsearch -x -LLL uid=* dn | perl -ne '/uid=(.*?),/ && print "$1\n"'
> | xargs ~apmail/bin/qmail-owner-setup.sh
>
> That is to be run *once*.  The second part is a one line addition to
>
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/tools/ap-adduser
>
> > Craig
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> >> 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!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>



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Gav...

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