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?
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