User Email Alias

User Mail Aliases

Historically, each registered user on SourceForge.net is provided a mail alias to aid in communications between developers, and between projects and their users. Any email sent to a user's mail alias is automatically passed to the email address that is on file for a that account. This feature is discouraged and no longer available to new accounts.

Features

• Mail aliases take the form: username@users.sourceforge.net
• Many email clients will allow you to set this address as the From address, when sending mail. Is someone else sending mail using your mail alias?
• Mail sent to your mail alias is silently forwarded to the private email address associated with your account. Are these emails bouncing?
• These mails are accessed through your normal mailbox. SourceForge.net does not store your mail for retrieval or provide POP/IMAP services.
• Many developers choose to have their mailing list subscriptions and other project-related mail go to their mail alias so they need only update the email address on their SourceForge.net user account if their email address changes.
• Your account's email address may be changed from the Account Settings page. Email address changes take effect once per minute.
• Mail aliases are removed when a user account is removed.

Mail Alias Behavior

Users with the mail alias set to "accept all" can set how they want their SourceForge.net mail alias to behave. This option is no longer available if your account was not using the "accept all" setting already, or was found to have bounced emails. This setting is found on the Account Settings page.

Select:

• Accept all mail - this will likely include some amount of spam from other users and the world (not SourceForge)
• Accept mail from SourceForge.net internal hosts only - (Default Setting) this will only accept mail from SourceForge.net hosts, including mailing lists, etc.
• Accept no mail (reject) - all mail will be blocked. Senders will receive a Non-Delivery Report (eg: bounce) from their mail system with an error similar to "550: No such user."
  Users with this setting will still receive email from SourceForge.net including all site mailings and mailings to project administrators.