On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 01:53:46PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé via devel wrote: > > This is potentially a bigger problem than just the vanity aliases, > because the fedoraproject.org domain is also used as the sender > domain for automated / machine emails our infrastructure/tools > send. > > At least we separated mailing lists off into its own sub-domain, > but having both those remaining use cases under the same domain > feels less than ideal. Hopefully we don't ever get any clashes > from a new contributor account name and a valid machine sender > address, as I'm guessing nothing enforces any separation ?
There is. We have a blocklist in the account system that prevents accounts with those name(s) to be created. Of course thats not perfect, but it's something. > If we want a mail service for contributors, should we consider use > of the separate "fedorapeople.org" domain for this, reserving the > "fedoraproject.org" domain for trusted project services to use for > outbound mail ? > > This would reduce the risk that contributor mails getting classed > as spam, would impact the reputation for the domain used for > project services which send mail. We could... if we were setting it up today I would totally be on board with that. Migrating everyone away would be a lot of work however. kevin -- _______________________________________________ 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
