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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Package maintainers: verify your PyPI account email address Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:57:38 -0400 From: Sumana Harihareswara <s...@changeset.nyc> To: DistUtils mailing list <distutils-...@python.org> Heads-up: if you have a pypi.org or test.pypi.org account, please verify your email address: https://pypi.org/manage/account/ https://test.pypi.org/manage/account/ Reason: > We have a problem with a bit of our data, namely that due to historical > reasons we have a fair amount of users in the database that do not have a > verified primary email address. The side effect of this is that we're > currently sending emails to email addresses that we have not had verified. > This is a bad situation to be in, because in order to keep our bounce/spam > rate low, we should be confirming all email addresses before sending email to > them. In addition the way our bounce handling code works is it un-verifies > the email address, which the intent was to stop sending email to it until the > user has reverified their email address. > > In total there are about 193k user accounts with a unverified email address > for their primary address, and 44k that do have a verified email address for > their primary account. > > So we need to come up with a strategy to resolve this, because it's pretty > important that we don't send email to unverified addresses. (quoting from Donald Stufft's explanation https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3632 which goes on to detail the step-by-step plan) Package maintainers should especially do this soon. As of a few days ago, any user whose primary email address is unverified can't upload a file: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/4292 Please forward to other package maintainers. After we iron out any issues I figure we'll email the announce list https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/pypi-announce.python.org/ . -- Sumana Harihareswara Changeset Consulting https://changeset.nyc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
