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Using your username@kernel.org alias

We do not provide mailbox hosting to kernel.org members, but we do provide a redirect alias to the address you specified when requesting an account. The only other service we offer in addition to the redirect is outgoing mail SMTP.

Sending outgoing mail

You may wish to use our mail server to send out email – due to company policies or whatnot. First, you will need to obtain your SMTP password using the following command:

ssh git@gitolite.kernel.org getsmtppass

This will produce the following output:

SMTP password for user [username] was set to: [randomstring]

Example mutt settings:

    set smtp_url     = "smtp://[username]@mail.kernel.org:587/"
    set smtp_pass    = "[randomstring]"
    set from         = "[username]@kernel.org"
    set ssl_starttls = yes

Example git config settings:

    [sendemail]
            smtpserver     = mail.kernel.org
            smtpserverport = 587
            smtpencryption = tls
            from           = [username]@kernel.org
            smtpuser       = [username]
            smtppass       = [randomstring]

This passphrase will be shown only once. You can get a new one by
running:

    ssh git@gitolite.kernel.org getsmtppass reset

This will reset any existing smtp password, so use with care.

You should be able to use this output to configure any other client for authenticated SMTP sending. The automatically generated random password is not used for anything else, so there is little concern in leaving it cleartext in your configuration files.

Note, that you may use gmail or many other web services for sending your username@kernel.org mail – most of them do the right thing with envelope-sender, so even if we put SPF/DKIM records in place for kernel.org in the future, you should not be affected by various spam filters.

Changing your forwarding address

Please submit a pgp-signed request to support with your username and the new desired destination. Successful PGP signature verification is a required step before we proceed with the change.

If your mail client is not set up to send PGP-signed emails, you can copy-paste the output of the following operation:

  $ gpg --clearsign
  [type your request]
  Ctrl-D to finish

Please copy-paste the entire output. If you are using a web client, best if you send this as a text attachment in order to avoid it being reformatted en route.

We can also forward to multiple destinations. Follow the same procedure to request additional destinations.

Topical addresses

We support using +topic addressing, so you can use any number of username+topic@kernel.org addresses when doing things like subscribing to mailing lists. E.g.:

  1. username+lkml@kernel.org

They will be correctly delivered to your forwarding address.

userdoc/mail.1494017989.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017-05-05 20:59 by mricon