Comment 2 for bug 56538
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 56538] Re: soyuz status messages should not use the submitters email address | #2 |
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On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 12:15 +0000, Celso Providelo wrote:
>
> Are you talking about upload notification ? What do you mean by
> "status
> notifications in soyuz" ?
Yes
> We use the upload submitter preferredemail to notify upload processing
> result and also notify the other developers via the distrorelease
> changes mailisting.
>
> What precisely do you suggest us to not use ?
Any email address that is not owned by the canonical server sending the
email.
Using the submitters email will blow up spectacularly in a growing
number of cases. Its essentially forging mail, which spammers do - so as
more people put in facilities to prevent that, it will become harder and
harder to do so successfully.
-Rob
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