Email from apache.org committer accounts bypasses moderation!

Posted on: 2014-06-15 02:29:06+00:00

Good news!   We've finally laid the necessary groundwork to extend the bypassing of committer emails sent from their apache.org addresses, from commit lists to now all Apache mailing lists.  This feature was activated earlier today and represents a significant benefit for cross-collaboration between Apache mailing lists for committers, relieving moderators of needless burden.

Also we'd like to remind you of the SSL-enabled SMTP submission service we offer committers listening on people.apache.org port 465.  Gmail users in particular can enjoy a convenient way of sending email, to any recipient even outside apache.org, using their apache.org committer address.  For more on that please see our website's documentation.

To complement these features we'd also like to remind committers of the ability to request an "owner file" be added to their email forwarder by filing an appropriate INFRA jira ticket.  Owner files alleviate most of the problems associated with outside organizations, who may be running strict SPF policies, attempting to reach you at your apache.org address.  Without an owner file those messages will typically bounce back to those organizations instead of successfully reaching you at your target forwarding address.  For those familiar with SRS, this is a poor-man's version of that specification's feature set.  Please direct your detailed questions about owner files to the infrastructure-dev@apache.org mailing list.

NOTE: we've extended this bypass feature to include any committer email addresses listed in their personal LDAP record with Apache.