[tor-project] disruption in email services

[Al Smith]

A huge thank you for jumping up and making changes when we noticed a 
downturn in delivery on our fundraising emails during a critical time. 
Many rounds of applause and beverages on me to you and the TPA team the 
next time we meet in person--thank you!!

Al

On 12/15/22 12:32 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> Status update, week two: TL;DR: situation mostly fixed. Next work in 2023.
>
> Things seem to have gone back to normal. In fact, I've been a little
> hesitant in sending this email, because I'm worried that people will
> suddenly remember all those issues they've been having with email
> forever and remind me how everything *else* is broken, but dang, it
> looks like we kind of made it?
>
> As far as I can tell, emails send through the submission server have
> stopped bouncing (#40640 closed!), authentication problems for messages
> actually delivered at gmail have stopped (#40765 closed!) and other
> outright gmail bounces seem to have also stopped (#40959 closed!).
>
> That is a *major* improvement, in such a short time span. There are
> still issues with our mail services, of course... In particular, email
> forwards are still in somewhat of a gray zone. They are *technically*
> not allowed, especially for senders with a hard SPF policy, but that was
> already a problem before. We *may* see delivery problems for mails sent
> *internally*, but, again, probably not worse off than what we were
> before.
>
> And, for the record, we are well within my time estimates for the labor
> on this. We still have a *lot* of work to do to complete (even a plan
> for) the mail infrastructure, but I'm going to call this one as fixed
> for now, as the next steps require further thinking, and even more major
> architectural changes. So I'm going to reserve those for that
> non-proverbial next year.
>
> In the meantime, I'll work on another one of my famous
> proposal. Apparently, ChatGPT can generate those for me now, so maybe
> I'll give that a shot.. ;)
>
> "Make a proposal for torproject.org mail services in the style of
> anarcat's TPA-RFC" please?
>
> A.
>
>
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