[SAC] FOSS4G domain mail server

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi!

Would it help if we use OSGeo accounts?

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 6:45 PM <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
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> Ah, we do have postfix servers, as part of the mail handling. Just need to check how we can set up external authenticated sending.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On Sep 19, 2020 04:33, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:04 AM Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maria,
> >
> > We do have infrastructure for handling the mailing domain, at least I
> > assume we can use the same infrastructure as the @osgeo.org emails. As
> > for the Foss4g marketing management that is being discussed, that would
> > require additional tools as mentioned in that thread.
>
> Well, we will need the marketing tools before that discussion
> finishes, so we are probably just going to start with mailchimp.
>
> What I was asking for on this email was some way of sending emails for
> the ticket sales and the CFP. Which still requires big batches of
> email sending.
>
> > As for simple emailing, we only offer alias, no inboxes, and the list
> > service. Are you interested in those features?
>
> We don't need an inbox, we just want to send emails (the "replyto"
> could be something else).
>
> But I don't think an alias could work on our case. Because for example
> GMail has a limit of sending mail that doesn't fit our needs (500
> emails per day, which in some cases will not be enough). So if the
> email is sent by GMail instead of OSGeo, it won't fix our issue. We
> are looking for a limitless mail server.
>
> A mailing list is not very compatible with privacy laws (sending lists
> of emails back and forth, adding them to mailing lists automatically,
> etc...).
>
> So I understand OSGeo does not have a mail server we can use to send emails?
>
> In that case I would ask for dns MX redirection to some server we set up.
>
> Thanks!
>
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