Hi all,

*Pre-amble*
Today, while responding to an posting in one of the mailing lists, I
experienced a failure by the mailer deamon of the ASF.

In this case I tried to send an email to user@infra.a.o.

*The issue*
The issue is that the ASF allows offices and project to use both user@ and
users@ as one of their mailing lists. And I suspect that this can cause
typos to happen to anyone not familiar with the ML specifics of each office
or project.

One could say that the burden is on the sender to ensure that the email is
sent to the right mailing list, but

would it not be advisable/preferable that the ASF ensures the best
contributor's experience possible by enabling wrongfully addressed
user@<whatever>.a.o.
mails get delivered to users@<whatever>.a.o. and wrongfully
users@<whatever>.a.o.
get delivered to user@<whatever>.a.o.?


It seems to me that this is easy to implement by INFRA (though I don't know
the intricacies of the mailer deamon implemented).

What do you think?

Best regards,



Pierre Smits

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