[Marketing] pr at sugarlabs.org wiped? urgent

[Bernie Innocenti]

David Farning wrote:
> Not Sure, there was a lot a traffic this weekend.
> 
> Basically, the pr account needed to be able to:
> 1. send mail in a manner which it looked like it was coming from pr@
> 2. receive and forward mail to multiple accounts.
> 
> Gmail didn't like this idea:( So we ended up creating a
> pressrelations@ account which appears to be sending from pr@, used a
> nickname pr@ to redirect the mail to pressrelations@, used filters to
> forward the message to several people.
> 
> The problems were:
> 1. I didn't think to use filters with wildcards as a forwarding mechanism.
> 2. There is a 5 day wait to recycle gmail names.
> 
> I a couple of day we can straighten this out for good.
> david

There's an easy workaround: anything that GMail does not directly handle
gets redirected to sunjammer, where it goes through /etc/aliases first,
and to local user accounts next.

For sending as pr at sugarlabs.org, well, I thought any user agent would
let you freely specify anything for the From address, without checking
if you actually own the address.

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