[Engineering] Bug reports about on-wiki email not being delivered

Wed Aug 31 15:30:43 UTC 2016

This is still an issue creating tension / attention in communities,
recently in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136468

Who could describe in that task the current situation and lay out the
(non-)available options for users expecting their emails to arrive? :-/

Thanks in advance.

andre

On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 15:45 -0700, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper at wikimedia.o
> rg> wrote:
> > We have a bunch of recent bug reports about on-wiki email
> > (Special:EmailUser) on Wikimedia sites not being delivered:
> > 
> > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130723
> > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134886
> > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136468
> > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137337
> > 
> > I don't know if all affected users face the same underlying reasons
> > (SPF policy of freemailers? BounceHandler extension? Something
> > else?),
> > hence some investigation would be very welcome here.
> > 
> 
> I suspect the answer is DMARC in all these cases.
> I wrote a summarized plan at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T13488
> 6#2294392 but it needs a technical accuracy/sanity-check.
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