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OSMF Email Forwarder SPF issue

Open Firefishy opened this issue 3 months ago • 2 comments

osmfoundation.org hosts 40 email forwarder addresses. eg: board@, freebies@ etc.

osmfoundation.org uses mailbox.org for hosting. Mailbox.org does not support SRS and they have indicated that they do not intend to support it in the near future.

The result is email forwarded via a osmfoundation.org forwarder address is liable to be rejected by destination email addresses if the original envelope sender address uses SPF restrictions.

5 of the forwarders simply forward email to OpenStreetMap's OTRS instance. These could be replaced with IMAP mailboxes and set OTRS to collect the email.

A workaround should be found for the other forwarders. Options could include:

  • Mailbox.org adopts SRS or similar.
  • Forwarder destination emails are replaced with osmfoundation.org hosted mailboxes.
  • osmfoundation.org forwarders are moved to openstreetmap.org

Firefishy avatar Mar 14 '24 11:03 Firefishy