On 2023-05-16 22:12:03 +0200 (+0200), Christian Rohmann wrote:

a while back I opened a story / bug on storyboard (https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2010689) about improving email deliver-ability. I am uncertain if that was the right place to raise this issue or if there is another channel.

In any case, could someone kindly point me or this suggestion into the right direction?

I guess there's a bit of an unclear distinction which could be made. Responsibility for keeping the storyboard.openstack.org service running is sort of shared between the OpenStack TaCT SIG and the OpenDev Collaboratory. The former is best reached on this mailing list with a [tact-sig] subject tag or in the #openstack-infra channel on the OFTC IRC network. The latter is best reached on the service-discuss@lists.opendev.org mailing list or the #opendev channel on the OFTC IRC network. (There's a third group, the StoryBoard developers, in the #storyboard IRC channel on OFTC, but that seems to be orthogonal to the story you're asking about.)

Ultimately, the few people involved in each of those groups (myself included) are pretty much all the same sets of folks any more as loss of interest over time has substantially distilled the pool of people why have any bandwidth to continue caring about it. For integral things like how messages are being formatted by the underlying software, we're in a bit of a bind since we're not deploying the latest version of StoryBoard and need help redoing all of the configuration management and deployment automation for it before we can attempt to upgrade. If you're looking to assist with maintenance of the storyboard.openstack.org service, we're always happy to have more help.

I'll see what I can do about the CSS listing, but it looks like it's because of other tenants sharing the same IP space in the cloud provider donating the server resources so SpamHaus may or may not grant us an exclusion for that flagged netblock.

As for the DKIM/SPF concerns, we currently don't do that for other significant services we run either: particularly Gerrit code review and Mailman mailing lists (including this one). There's been some past consensus among our sysadmin collective that DMARC is a calculated landgrab by freemail providers aimed at thinning the market and stamping out private E-mail operators under the guise of improving spam filtering, so we'd prefer to find ways to improve the reputations of the services we run in other ways rather than caving to monopolistic bullying tactics (and yes, I realize it's probably a futile exercise of shouting into the wind, but I'm not personally ready to admit defeat on that front).