Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Dne neděle 16. dubna 2023 12:31:52 CEST, Per Jessen napsal(a):
David C. Rankin wrote:
On 4/13/23 05:33, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The thing is that, by design, anyone can send saying "I am "whomever@opensuse.org", because as there is no proper smtp server for the opensuse.org alias and each of us has to use their own methods to send that email, it basically means that they can not be filtered. No authentication checks are possible.
Ahh, the good ole days.. When an organizations servers -- were ... the organizations servers....
If someone (preferably 2-3 people) volunteers for running support, we can set up outbound SMTP for the opensuse.org addresses, with corresponding authentication, it's not a lot of effort. The real effort is in supporting it.
IMHO own openSUSE SMTP would be great. I'd also add possibility of DKIM and so and lowered chance of openSUSE legitimate mails failing into SPAM.
Yep. We already publish DKIM / DMARC data.
Sorry for dumb question, but what does exactly "effort supporting it" mean? I'd guess one wiki page will just state server name, port, security layer and which credentials to use and that's it...?
Not a dumb question at all. For starters, there will be 700-800 members who will all need to set up their systems for such a new feature. This will no doubt require some hand-holding, never mind how well it is described on that wiki page Next, there is userid+password management. People will need to authenticate to use their accounts - the easiest (implementation) is userid+pwd. People forget them, want to change them, need to setup an account on a new system etc etc. Another question here is - do we add all of them to our internal accounts system or do we maintain a separate accounts system? Third, we will need some sort of rate limiting - accounts are stolen all the time, we don't want anyone abusing our mail system and sending thousands of mails when an acocunt has been compromised. (not really a support matter though). I'm sure I have forgotten something :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.3°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes