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

[Alex M]

On 04/20/2016 08:03 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 07:44:00AM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> On 04/20/2016 03:01 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:43:57PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I'm also unclear at the moment, thus the request for a local account.
>>> An alias could also do, for a start, but I like the idea of anyone
>>> being able to "impersonate" a given account (sudo users?) being
>>> also able to read the email for that given account. Think mail
>>> to the "git at git.osgeo.org" user, which may represent the git services
>>> as per https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Git_Service
>>
>> I'm worried about no one remembering to check it...
> 
> I'm worried about setting a redirection now and then having
> difficulty about changing it later. The whole point is giving
> "redirectability" of the address the same permissions as the
> service itself.
> 
> I'm not skilled enough with MTAs to know what's possible to do or
> not for reducing the risk you're envisioning. How about a default
> delivery to /dev/null UNLESS a ~user/.forward file exists ?
> 
> --strk;
> 

Well MTA is one thing, email forwarding is another and much simpler.

1. Please open a ticket asking to setup or confirm that a subdomain
mailing address works on osgeo.

2. Once that is done, put in a ticket to create a mailing list
(private), and an alias from that incoming address to the list. Then
subscribe all the admins that would need regular access to it.

That's my suggested approach.

Thanks,
Alex