Launchpad itself

<email address hidden> interacts poorly with debian.org

Bug #82718 reported by Christian Reis
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Launchpad itself
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

We currently use the address <email address hidden> as the envelope sender for email validation mail sent to end-users. This unfortunately interacts poorly with debian.org's smartlist. In particular, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111652

We should change the envelope sender; James T. suggests using <email address hidden>, which according to him has precedent and shouldn't break smartlist.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

I have filed an RT request for an accessible mailbox for bounces. Perhaps a mailing list is the best solution; not sure.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote :

We already use <email address hidden> to explicitly throw away replies from automatic notifications that cannot handle replies (as opposed to <email address hidden>, which will one day have a bounce processor to flag obsolete email addresses)

What messages will we get sent to the address in the envelope sender?

Errors-To: header can keep set to <email address hidden> for all the bounces from modern mail handlers.

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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

According to the Debian bug, "<email address hidden>" would be just as bad as "<email address hidden>". It isn't the domain that is the problem -- it is the user name portion.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

Ok, so perhaps '<email address hidden>' as the local-part?

Robert Collins (lifeless)
tags: added: email notifications
removed: lp-foundations
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