Email system is down

[Nefari0uss]

Not related to the website but I'm not sure where else to put it (other than maybe hopping on IRC) - the email system seems to be down. I tried to send an email to [email protected] yesterday only to receive a delivery failure message.

[dominikWin]

OSU no longer allows running custom mail servers for external orgs like this. The MX record still exists, but the network will block anything going to that server, and with the new servers approach to security I couldn't run a mail server if I tried. I believe this happened well over a year ago. I don't think this can be resolved.

[Nefari0uss]

RIP. I remember that the university was always against the way the org had set up stuff, especially with all the special privileges that they had. Please tell me that the office room is still held by the club.

Also, what's the best way to contact the org then?

[dominikWin]

We still have an office. The server was recently changed to be officially managed through OSU but we still have it running in the office. I don't really know the best way to contact the org. If not an officers email, the best straight up might be irc or maybe github

[egladman]

For what it's worth here's my thoughts on the matter...

Historically we've always had a generic email like contact or officers that gets aliased to all the current officers. I think it's important to maintain this. How you go about achieving this is up to you

Everyone has an email, not everyone has a GitHub or irc idle.

I figure using a third-party email provider to alias addresses is out of the question given the proprietary nature. You could always go around to local tech companies and ask for sponsorship for hosting a small externally facing email server with a new tld.

[Nefari0uss]

Protonmail might be something worth looking into. Big on privacy, has open source software, etc. You're not hosting it but if OSU is managing the server now, you'd have to pay for hosting anyways.