I was thinking... I'm actually surprised that sending email from a different service provider works at all, using a Fedora committer email address. With modern email security checks, I'm surprised it doesn't just get blocked since it's not being sent from a fedoraproject.org SMTP server. I don't know enough about how this works to fully consider the pros and cons of alternatives. If Fedora provided its own SMTP server, then I think it would be easy to consider alternatives, like Thunderbird. But, I think Fedora would probably have to provide the ability to create an application password to authenticate to an SMTP server, because it shouldn't be unauthenticated, and Fedora's MFA might be a bit troublesome with it.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 1:50 PM Adam Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2026-09-04 at 13:14 -0400, Christopher wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A colleague recently made me aware of a pending change in GMail that > > affects how I send email to Fedora mailing lists. > > > > Fedora documents this here: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/commops/gmail-alias/ > > GMail documents this feature here: > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370 > > The notice of the change is documented here: > > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/17101213 > > > > I am very irritated by this change, since I depend on this feature to > > be able to send to the Fedora mailing lists using my > > @fedoraproject.org email address (or using my @apache.org email for > > ASF lists). > > > > Does anybody else depend on this? Does anybody have any good > > alternative solutions? > > FWIW, I run my personal email through Fastmail. As part of my RH/Fedora > brain split I've switched to sending fedoraproject.org mails via > Fastmail's servers; this doesn't work by default, but you can add your > fedoraproject.org address to Fastmail in "My email addresses", confirm > it, and then fastmail will let you send as that address. > > I've found Fastmail's service to be excellent and their webmail is much > nicer than gmail's for me. And their IMAP is standards-compliant. It > costs money, but I'd say it's worth it. > -- > Adam Williamson (he/him/his) > Fedora QA > Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] > https://www.happyassassin.net > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
