On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Krinkle krinklemail@gmail.com wrote:
Also, when we do find a good hostname to use, I think it should be universal and tied to a SUL username (not per-wiki or per-project), so it shouldn't contain the name of a project (wikipedia, wiktionary, commons, ..) and not the name of the software (mediawiki). Something like "users.wikimedia.org" might be appropriate.
{username}@users.wmfmail.tld ? separate but not tied to one project and would be hard for users to get it confused with a foundation staff members email and have it automatically foward to whatever email address they have confirmed with.
I've been wanting to grab users.wikimedia as a while as a project/central place for user pages and talk pages, Although we don't support decent cross-wiki transclusion (yet), soft redirects would be fine for that.
If that is done though, would it be an alias (forward) address or would it allow sending (IMAP/POP3). The latter would probably also cost a significant amount of storage over time, so alias/forward is probably better.
A alias would fine for most things (and would solve the legal issues of wmf hosting email as well), but I'm also the same with your comment where most things should be on wiki (unless there is a good reason) compared to e-mail (That is a handy thing about Special:Emailuser not standing out well).
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
I don't see a reason why it shouldn't look "official"
Spam, Mis-representing themselves, {users|outside people} getting consfused thinking they are getting emails from {the foundation/foundation staff}.