[jira] [Created] (INFRA-8396) Does INFRA-7390 have implications for allowable user ids?

["Sebb (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sebb created INFRA-8396:
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             Summary: Does INFRA-7390 have implications for allowable user ids?
                 Key: INFRA-8396
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8396
             Project: Infrastructure
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Mail (qmail)
            Reporter: Sebb


INFRA-7390 introduced e-mail aliases of the form

availid-suffix@apache.org

Now there are already some availids which contain a hyphen "-".
Currently the list is:

an-selm
james-masanz
jean-louis
rgb-es
soc-xzw
swaroop-aj

To avoid ambiguity, this means that the following ids should not be issued

an
james
jean
rgb
soc
swaroop

AFAICT, these ids have not yet been allocated.
But if any such ids were issued, there would be opportunities for mails to be unexpectedly misdirected.

I don't know how potential availids are screened for suitability.
If there is an automated check, it should be trivial to add the first part of existing ids to the list of exclusions.

Note that the suffix can contain hyphens, so an availid of the form "a-b-c" should disallow "a-b" as well as "a", etc. for additional hyphens



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