An email address at apache.org is associated with every committer
account. Occasional official Apache emails will be directed to this account.
It is very important that you check mail sent to your apache.org email
address regularly for announcements. You are also free to use this address
for other ASF work related to projects you work on.
Note that the infrastructure group provides an email address for you;
however they do not typically provide a mailbox - you must
normally setup forwarding for this address to be able to read your mails. Instructions
on how to setup a .forward file are available.
Advanced users may alternately setup a .qmail or .emailaddr
file containing an email address. Be sure to keep your forwarding address
up to date in the future as well.
When your committer account is first created by Infrastructure, a .forward
file is created for you at the top-level of your home directory.
You must ensure that a .forward file exists and contains
your correct and updated forwarding email address. You can view and change this file by
logging in via ssh to people.apache.org and looking at the file.
You can use the following command to display the file:
cat .forward
The file should contain one line with your forwarding email address.
If the .forward file is missing or the address is
incorrect, you can create or update it using the command:
echo your_correct_forwarding_email > .forward
Now test out forwarding by logging out and sending email to your
apache.org address from your normal email client. Ensure
that you receive the email at your_correct_forwarding_email address.
If you still have troubles then try doing 'ssh people.apache.org; touch ~/.qmail-owner'
It is not a requirement that you use this email address to send email to your project mailing lists. Use whatever email address that you like. Typically, you should use the same email address to subscribe to various project lists that you send email from. There are certain other mailing lists that are only available to committers, but still you don't need to use your apache address - the moderators will know who you are. There are more helpful tips about becoming a new committer.
One method which can be used to send mail from your apache.org
account is to fake the sender (by posting though a standard account with
the from address set to your-username@apache.org)
rather than logging on to your Apache user then trying to post. How to fake the
sender depends on the email client used. This works in most situations.
Advanced users may use port forwarding to occasionally send email from their
apache.org address. This is not typically recommended, but is
possible. Brief instructions on Windows for using PuTTY and Thunderbird
are included below. Reminder: this is not supported, so please make sure
you know what you are doing first.
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