Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/71529: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@ Message-ID: <200409091532.i89FWT4A015997@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200409091540.i89FeGib096831@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 71529 >Category: docs >Synopsis: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@ >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 09 15:40:16 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: David Wolfskill >Release: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386 >Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling Residence >Environment: System: FreeBSD bunrab.catwhisker.org 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #75: Sun Sep 5 05:16:39 PDT 2004 root@freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/BUNRAB i386 >Description: Under "Postmaster," doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml currently shows Jonathan's name & address address as well as mine. There are a couple of issues; the first is that Jonathan has effectively retired from postmaster@FreeBSD.org, effective January 2003. (However, "jmb" still shows up in the expansion for the "postmaster" alias on hub.) That, however, is not the focus of this PR. I mention it in passing, and am Cc:ing Jonathan, in case he wants to pipe up. The focus is that while the names may be useful, the given addresses are somewhat less so, and may be misleading: mx1.freebsd.org is (and has been) set up to treat mail to postmaster@ as "special" -- there are several circumstances such that if someone tries to send mail to jmb@freebsd.org or dhw@freebsd.org, the attempt will fail, while an otherwise equivalent attempt to send mail to postmaster@freebsd.org will succeed. This is by design and intent, per RFC 2821, section 4.5.1. Further, the mail that is addressed to postmaster@freebsd.org that gets to me does so via the address "freebsd-pm@catwhisker.org" -- in my MTA rules and filters on mx.catwhisker.org, I make an effort to accept mail addressed to freebsd-pm@ just as I do for postmaster@ -- and those rules are a lot less strict than those I have for non-postmaster aliases. Thus, with the situation as it now is, someone having trouble sending mail to one of the FreeBSD.org mailing lists might be inclined to send mail to dhw@ and jmb@ (individually -- as happened today), and be just as unable to send mail to those addresses as to the mailing list. So the person then ends up sending mail from some other address that does not exhibit the problem, finding some other way to contact us, or giving up. I believe that changing the given email address(es) to just "postmaster@FreeBSD.org" would better serve folks in need of contacting Postmaster and suggest that the docs be changed to reflect that. >How-To-Repeat: n/a >Fix: Sorry; I don't have the docbook-fu for this. :-( >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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