[tor-project] disruption in email services

[isabela fernandes]

Thank you, Thank you and Thank you TPA team :)

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 5:35 PM Al Smith <smith at torproject.org> wrote:

> 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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