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GMail and Sourceforge E-mail Bouncing Saga
An anonymous reader writes "All e-mail going back and forth from Sourceforge and Gmail is being bounced. This leaves many Open Source projects with helpless mailing lists. Fortunately, Sourceforge blames Google and Google is blaming SourceForge for this. The Sourceforge support site is clogged with support requests for a resolution to this problem. Google's response to this bouncing has been automated e-mails saying it is probably at the other end of mail delivery. This is something that the community needs to know about since it has been going on for a week already with no end in sight." Worth noting that Sourceforge and Slashdot are both part of OSTG. Update 20:07 GMT by SM: According to SourceForge support staff this issue is now resolved. Apparently a few days ago the sender-verify to gmail started resulting in 450 errors. Google has since either corrected this issue or whitelisted SourceForge and several tests of the system have resulted in correct delivery.
...but nobody said anything about complacency!
Meta will eat itself
Yeah, Sourforge sucks.
Not only it's full of flaws, but the interface is awful.
Trac is the way to go.
We need more large-scale sites offering Trac hosting.
The game I'm currently working on, QonkD, is hosted at a site that uses Trac, and I'm very happy with it.
(Note that they accept only projects in the D programming language, and their site is a bit slow, probably cause it's small and lack resources.)
factor 966971: 966971
Looking at my gmail account it shows a little *BETA* under the Google mail logo.
Call me stupid but using beta grade software for real world stuff could be asking for trouble by the many people using the gmail service....