On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, when we do find a good hostname to use, I think it should be universal
> and
> tied to a SUL username (not per-wiki or per-project), so it shouldn't contain
> the name of a project (wikipedia, wiktionary, commons, ..) and not the name of
> the software (mediawiki). Something like "users.wikimedia.org" might be
> appropriate.
{username}@users.wmfmail.tld ? separate but not tied to one project
and would be hard for users to get it confused with a foundation staff
members email and have it automatically foward to whatever email
address they have confirmed with.
I've been wanting to grab users.wikimedia as a while as a
project/central place for user pages and talk pages, Although we don't
support decent cross-wiki transclusion (yet), soft redirects would be
fine for that.
> If that is done though, would it be an alias (forward) address or would it
> allow
> sending (IMAP/POP3). The latter would probably also cost a significant amount
> of
> storage over time, so alias/forward is probably better.
A alias would fine for most things (and would solve the legal issues
of wmf hosting email as well), but I'm also the same with your comment
where most things should be on wiki (unless there is a good reason)
compared to e-mail (That is a handy thing about Special:Emailuser not
standing out well).
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't see a reason why it shouldn't look "official"
Spam, Mis-representing themselves, {users|outside people} getting
consfused thinking they are getting emails from {the
foundation/foundation staff}.
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