[SAC] [OSGeo] #2511: Mail accounts (no alias) for FOSS4G domain

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#2511: Mail accounts (no alias) for FOSS4G domain
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 Reporter:  Delawen        |       Owner:  sac@…
     Type:  task           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  critical       |   Milestone:  Unplanned
Component:  Systems Admin  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by Delawen):

 I'm also very suspicious of Amazon in general but on this case I think
 this is an accomodating service for EC2. Trying to lure people into using
 EC2 because you have this fancy free service if you do the requests from
 an EC2 instance. I don't think they see SES as a sales focus.

 The inbox is not needed, as long as we have an SMTP (which Amazon offers)
 and a forwarding service to receive emails (which Amazon offers).

 In fact, **not having an inbox is a feature** in our case, not a bug :)
 Because of the previously discussed privacy concerns: After each FOSS4G,
 the old LOC has to remove all data before giving the accounts/services to
 the new LOC. This way, there will be nothing to remove regarding email.

 The only data we are allowed to keep from one FOSS4G to the next is the
 one from the mailing list, which is the one that is right now stored on
 mailchimp. And we can keep it because we explicitly ask to keep it and we
 have the footer on each email that allows them to unsubscribe.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2511#comment:28>
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