Hi! In addition to @kde.org mailboxes for core developers and KDE e.V. members, KDE.org offers @kdemail.net-aliases for contributors. This is quite neat in allowing to keep a stable - and dedicated - contact address for contributions across KDE. As such it is great for use in copyright headers and as git commit email.
However, what about discussion related to contributions? I for one would love to use an @kdemail.net address for KDE-related mails both on public mailing lists and in private exchange. Admittedly, getting contacted about a message written months or years in the past is a rare (but possible) exception, so a stable address may not be super important in this context. However, it would still offer the comfort of separating project-related mail from e.g. family or work related mail. It would also "look nice" in giving KDE contributors an immediately visible standing when talking to external parties (distributions / library maintainers / users). According to a quick survey of my local mail archives, such use of @kdemail.net seems to have been _somewhat_ common for a while, but seems to be essentially nonexistent after about 2017. The reason for that, I *assume* could be that it has become increasingly difficult to use @kdemail.net as a sender address. Many mail providers will refuse to even let you send from a different address, and many (receiving) mail providers will look upon a mail received from a non-SPF-sanctioned server with suspicion. A quick and ridiculously non-representative test among three mail providers suggests that only one out of three will allow me to use thomas.friedrichsme...@kdemail.net as a sender address for a test email, and of the two others, one will classify the mail as SPAM upon receiving it (without giving human readable reasons). Long story short: How would you (sysadmin, in particular) feel about the following: 1) Create an SPF-record specifying mail.kde.org as the legitimate sender of @kdemail.net mails. 2) Allow and encourage contributors to send @kdemail.net-mails via mail.kde.org. This would still be for sending, only. Incoming mail would continue to be forwarded to some external mailbox. -- Disclaimer: As you may have guessed, I'm currently in the process of replacing my primary mail provider/address, and looking for a decent long-term solution, personally. Regards Thomas
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