Back in November of last year, the OCF Board of Directors announced that email service was being discontinued, with the first phase being transitioning into forward-only email service.
The start date for the first phase, October 20th, has long passed, although we never actually enforced the change. We're now ready to move into forward-only mode, and will enter this phase on Saturday, June 14th.
After this date, email will be forwarded to your registered email address. For most members, this is the email you provided when you created your account, but for old accounts, or for accounts with complicated .forward or .procmailrc files, this entry may be blank or incorrect.
You are strongly advised to run update-email over SSH in order to verify that you have registered an email with LDAP. If you don't have an SSH client handy, the easiest way to access SSH is by visiting ssh.ocf.berkeley.edu in your web browser.
Email will only be forwarded to your email in LDAP. .forward and .procmailrc files will no longer be processed. If no email has been set after June 14th, incoming email will bounce.
If you need assistance updating your email or accessing your OCF account, please get in touch so we can help you sort it out.
Happy summer!
Edit for clarification: Email addresses set in LDAP via update-email will only be used for forwarding after June 14th. There's unfortunately no good way to run the old system (.forward/.procmailrc files) alongside the new system, so setting an email will have no effect until the switch. Sorry for the confusion!
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