On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Mark Holmquist <mtrac...@member.fsf.org> wrote: >> That's nice, but as a business decision the wikimedia foundation has >> decided to host our corporate email with Google. For personal mail we >> all have the choice of whatever system we would like, but this >> business decision has been made for us, and if someone wants a >> wikimedia.org address, I don't think it's an onerous burden to require >> that they use our current infrastructure to access it, instead of >> requiring us to do a lot of difficult workarounds. Unless I've missed >> something, using wikimedia.org for non-employees is a option, not a >> necessity. > > > It was my understanding that part of this discussion was to require > volunteers to use a specific mail server to post to the list....but now I > can't find the message that gave me that impression, so maybe I've > misunderstood the nature of the thread? >
I believe the nature was SPF checks for mail claiming to be sourced from wikimedia.org addresses. This would require an "authoritative" SMTP server but wouldn't prevent non @wikimedia.org email addresses from posting to the list. Leslie > (I'm leaving out arguments about the decision to host with Google, but it > seems like a relevant thing, perhaps there are archived discussions that I > could read?) > > > -- > Mark Holmquist > Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation > mtrac...@member.fsf.org > http://marktraceur.info > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
