#30608: Have a SMTP out only server
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Reporter: dgoulet | Owner: tpa
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by anarcat):
@mikeperry - do you use gmail?
I don't, and i don't have this problem, as far as I know. I've had
problems with mail delivery before in #29770 but I resolved it by fixing
my "enveloppe from". as it turns out, i had a local configuration problem.
I suspect a lot of those issues are bound to SPF or DKIM configurations
(not on torproject.org!) that are fundamentally incompatible with email
forwarding.
It would greatly help if people would report delivery issues they are
having with concrete examples, here. as far as I know, the only such
documented report is the one i did above, in #29770. I won't deny there
are problems, but I think it would be better to have clear documentation
of what the issues are if we're going to fix this.
Tthe other thing is that using the all-powerful LDAP password for email
means yet another password reuse: then that password, instead of being
just in your head or in your password manager, needs to be stored, in
cleartext, in some configuration somewhere. this is very bad. So we'd at
least need to finish the separation between the "sudo" and "normal" LDAP
passwords (#6367) and possibly setup another "service" password
specifically for email. This will, naturally, make LDAP management more
complex but it's not an impossible task.
Honestly, it is my belief that companies like Google and Facebook are
actively trying to destroy the "old" internet standards like email. They
have done so with XMPP and SMTP/IMAP are the ones that are left. "Delivery
to gmail.com", as a standard, is not simply a matter of delivering emails
from torproject.org servers. It's a black box we do not control and that
do not provide tech support or answer postmaster@ emails, so it's actually
a very hard problem to solve.
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