[Systems] Fwd: 2017 Debugging member's List [DNS Request]

[Chris Leonard]

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On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
> On 23/03/17 21:31, Ignacio Rodríguez wrote:
>
> ~ Question: Do you know the app's procedure for sending the emails?
> can we test this part of the process?
>
> I did send some tests emails to you, Samson and me (from Sunjammer);
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/verify-email/blob/master/send_mail.py
> the text of the email is available there, we can change it once we get
> verify.sugarlabs.org or whatever!
>
> The script basically grabs all emails in "mails.txt" and sends them a
> message with the verification link
>
>
> I took some pain to learn that in this day and age, some mailservers will
> more likely classify your mail as spam, unless it comes from a dns signed
> mailserver for a domain and has proper signatures (is that what DKIM
> signatures are?).
>
> Ignacio, your code assumes localhost is a properly configured mailserver.
> This is not true for vote vm. To avoid the Spam folder I setup vote to relay
> email to a gmail account. More or less what it says here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
>
> At this time I went and tried it and it failed. There is an error in the
> logs suggesting logging into said account could fix it (password is in
> /etc/exim4/passwd.client).
> Anyhow it's probably better to route mail thru sunjammer.
>
> (...)
>
> Bernie, or anyone with access to DNSSEC signatures: I don't think I've got
> access to sign the DNS records for sugarlabs. Membership Committee is
> requesting to add an A record for verify.sugarlabs.org to IP 18.85.44.75:81
> (which is a vm hosted in Freedom). This is to conduct a membership email
> update / verification with a Flask app (code by Ignacio, published above).
>
> Thanks!
> Sebastian
>
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