[SAC] email to register bot accounts on online services ?

[Alex Mandel]

An actual local account or just an alias? Perhaps even an email list
with multiple admins?

Guess I'm unclear on everything it needs to handle.

-Alex

On 04/19/2016 04:05 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> Even better, being a _local_ account, would be to use
> "git at git.osgeo.org", but I'd still like then to be able
> to receive mail from there (to eventually enable email-based
> services to update tickets and the like). Any major drawback
> with receiving mails that way ?
> 
> --strk;
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:55:13PM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> I'm registering an "osgeo-bot" user on gitlab.com to give it
>> push access for automating mirrors of code repositories
>> (see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1654)
>>
>> For now I gave it my own email address, but it would make
>> more sense to have some service-specific mailboxes to use
>> for these things. What would you think about a git at osgeo.org
>> email, for example ?
>>
>> The mail could go to the local mailbox for "git" user
>> on git.osgeo.org host, so that anyone with shell access
>> and sudo could use the ~git/.forward file to add her email
>> or something along those lines.
>>
>> Is there any other service using this local approach ?
>>
>> --strk; 
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