Email Aliases
We provide email aliases on the fedoraproject.org domain to all contributors who have agreed to the FPCA and are in at least 1 group.
Getting Your Aliases
In order to get your email aliases, you must create an account in the Fedora Account System . You must also sign the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement and make sure you are also approved in at least one group as well.
Once your account is ready, you will get aliases based upon the following template:
accountname@fedoraproject.org
Your aliases will forward to whatever email address you have registered in the Account System. If ever you need to change the address your mail forwards to, that is the place to do it.
You will not be provided with any sort of POP, IMAP, or web-based email access. You will not be provided with any mail storage. These aliases are forwarding-only. In order to send mail 'from' these addresses, you must set the From header on your email from your current email client. Many free web-based email services do not offer this ability, so you may need to establish an account elsewhere to gain this ability. The necessary configuration steps vary for each email client, so you are on your own to figure out how to do this.
Package maintainers email aliases
If there is a need to contact maintainers of a given package, you can use the official email alias to contact maintainers and co-maintainers. It is especially effective, when you need to contact maintainers of multiple packages and don't know, which maintainer (or co-maintainer) is currently active.
<package>-maintainers@fedoraproject.org
You can also mail just the Fedora maintainers:
<package>-maintainers-fedora@fedoraproject.org
Or only the EPEL maintainers:
<package>-maintainers-epel@fedoraproject.org
These aliases consider a user a 'maintainer' when they are admin or have commit privs on a package.
For general bugs or other issues with a package, do consider filing a bugzilla bug instead. The aliases are useful for coordination, but bugs and RFE's should still be filed in bugzilla.
Working Clients
These clients are known to allow explicit From headers, which allows your email to appear as being 'from' your aliases.
| Client Name | Works? | Instructions | Notes |
| Clients in Fedora Package Collection | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderbird |  |
Link | |
| Evolution | |
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| KMail | |
Link | |
| Mutt | |
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| Free Web-Based Offerings | |||
| Gmail/Google Mail | |
Community Blog article | Works if you set SMTP server manually (smtp.gmail.com) when adding alias |
| Yahoo! Mail |  |
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| MSN Hotmail | |
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| Key | |
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Works |
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Unknown/Limited |
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Doesn't Work |
Evolution Client
To use Fedora Email Alias in Evolution, follow these steps:
- Add email account in Evolution. Use the same email address which was used to register with Fedora Account System.
- Evolution will enter Sending server and Receiving server details automatically.
- Sending Server and Receiving Server details can be added manually if Evolution doesn't do it automatically.
- After email account has been added, go to Edit --> Preferences. Select the newly added Email Account and click Edit.
- Under Required Information, just change Email Address to my_name@fedoraproject.org.
Thunderbird
To set an E-Mail Alias in Thunderbird, first create an account for the email address that receives the redirected emails. Once done, go to Edit --> Account Settings (or Tools --> Account Settings), and select the account you just created. At the bottom right corner, click Manage Identities. Click on Add, and then fill in your name and your alias (e.g., my_name@fedoraproject.org). Click OK, and you're all set!
To limit the diffusion of E-mail_spam, some service providers create a directory in your web mail account where, by default, suspected e-mails are stored temporarily and after some time deleted and so are not sent to your e-mail client. As e-mails from fedoraproject domain could be handled in this way, you should set in your web mail the fedoraproject domain as reliable, to avoid this.
If any of the above listings are inaccurate, or if you have additional information, please update this list!
Gmail / Google Mail
To learn more about using your Fedora Project email alias as an outgoing address in Gmail / Google Mail, read the article on the Fedora Community Blog for more information.
Getting Help
If you need help or have questions about this process, contact the Account System team .