groups.drupal.org sends notification emails to group members for creation of events, posts, comments, etc. Recently, members of the university-massachusetts-amherst group stopped receiving these messages. It turned out that they were being rejected by the email server because of the fake return address btch1.drupal.bak. Could this be changed to a real address? I imagine other systems are encountering the same issue.

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mdmattin created an issue. See original summary.

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+1

I run my own mail server, and set up fail2ban to reject emails from "Domain not found", which is EXTREMELY REASONABLE to do.

Thus, I conclude it would be even more reasonable for Drupal.org mailing lists to NOT use fake domain names, that makes Drupal.org look like a SPAMMER!!! Alert, alert.

And have mailing lists around the world start blocking legit posts to legit subscribers, due to the "looks like spam".

At risk is Drupal.org IP numbers might be added to real time email blacklists, hundreds of them.

It takes days to get your IP numbers unblocked at most RBLs, and some it takes weeks. Not worth the risk.

I hope someone is listening, and forwards this request to responsible email administrators at Drupal.org.

Meanwhile, Drupal.org might be getting a bad reputation for emulating spammers, and not following the Internet RFCs!!!

Hope this helps.

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The only development done on groups.drupal.org is to replace it. The plan seems to migrate it into drupal.org, as described in #2590497: [meta] Proposal to migrate groups into Drupal.org.