Disable Phab accounts with invalid e-mails that bounce
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	• demon
	Jan 8 2016, 8:31 PM

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Some old WMFers continue to receive e-mail from being subscribed to things. However this e-mail is bouncing since their WMF e-mail has (rightly) been turned off. Outgoing staff should probably swap their e-mails to a personal one :)

Also sometimes people setup weird e-mails that just don't work.

Due to the way Phab's MTA jobs behave, they continue to bounce again and again and pile up the daemon queue. Silly Phab.

Former staff are always welcome back as volunteers, and if these people want to regain their accounts I'm more than happy to restore it at that point if we can sort out the e-mail issue.

As of today, this has been done to the following accounts:
@Jaredzimmerman-WMF
@Vibhabamba
@GYoung
@howief
@caroline (spam user? e-mail bouncing to @wikimedia.com?!)
@Cmcmahon
@Philippe-WMF
@SVentura

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Mentioned In: T190719: Create @wikimedia.org e-mail that just discards things sent to it
T157740: Regularly report and unassign tasks assigned to disabled accounts
T115579: Disabled Phabricator accounts of former WMF staff still show their old employment position
Mentioned Here: T100400: Phabricator needs to handle bounces/errors from non-existent email addresses

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• demon created this task.Jan 8 2016, 8:31 PM

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Underlying problem is T100400

Yep, that's it. Didn't realize we already had something filed for it. This task is meant to be a workaround really until that's solved. This should probably be blocked on that (with the eventual idea that these accounts can be unlocked again).

Has anyone tried to reach out to these accounts before disabling (emails/talk pages)? Coming back to find a disabled account might be a bit disheartening if they want to volunteer.

I've find a non wmf email address for one of those by scanning the MLs i'm on, other lists or wikis (Eg: officewiki) might chuck up others.

In T123139#1922336, @Peachey88 wrote:

Has anyone tried to reach out to these accounts before disabling (emails/talk pages)? Coming back to find a disabled account might be a bit disheartening if they want to volunteer.

I've find a non wmf email address for one of those by scanning the MLs i'm on, other lists or wikis (Eg: officewiki) might chuck up others.

Nope, but considering this is mainly meant as a workaround until the underlying bug is fixed I'm not too terribly worried. One of the 5 is spam for sure.

greg added a project: Essential-Work.Jan 11 2016, 10:49 PM

• demon updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 15 2016, 2:17 PM

• demon added a subscriber: • Cmcmahon.

• mmodell updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 16 2016, 9:18 PM

• mmodell added a subscriber: • Philippe-WMF.

• demon updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 29 2016, 5:27 PM

• demon added a subscriber: • SVentura.

Peachey88 mentioned this in T115579: Disabled Phabricator accounts of former WMF staff still show their old employment position.Apr 3 2016, 1:16 AM

• demon mentioned this in T157740: Regularly report and unassign tasks assigned to disabled accounts.Feb 9 2017, 9:55 PM

• demon mentioned this in T190719: Create @wikimedia.org e-mail that just discards things sent to it.Mar 26 2018, 8:11 PM

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