On 16 Jan 2016, at 18:39, Alex Monk krenair@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 January 2016 at 10:08, Yury Bulka setthemfree@privacyrequired.com wrote:
MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com writes:
A few years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation switched over to the Google
Apps
platform, which means that most e-mail sent on the wikimedia.org domain
is
now hosted by Google.
Are you sure? It doesn't look like wikimedia.org's MX point to google's servers: https://starttls.info/check/wikimedia.org
It's true that individual inboxes for staff/contractors/board/etc. are hosted in Google Apps. WMF Operations controls the mail routing (hence the MX record) and directs mail sent to different addresses to different places
- including rules for allowing Office IT (via foundation corporate LDAP) to
route addresses to Google: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/OPUP/browse/production/templates...
Open source email options apparently aren't up to the job. As demonstrated by the number of times that the gmail-only 'mute thread' functionality has been mentioned on this list of late...
Thanks, Mike