No emails from foss.heptapod.net

Antonio Muci a.mux at inwind.it
Sat Feb 8 17:59:30 UTC 2025


Hi George,

thanks for the clarification, and thanks as always for the work on 
Mercurial and Heptapod.

I hope that this specific issue can be fixed when possible. Above all, I 
hope that the project stays healthy in every possible way.

Best,

Antonio



On 08/02/25 18:47, Georges Racinet wrote:
> On 08/02/2025 18:29, Antonio Muci wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> sorry for hijacking this thread, but it feels that something relevant 
>> happened right around the time this short discussion happened, and I 
>> wanted to ask if there is any relation.
>>
>> This email thread is from January, 15th. Since January, 16th, the 
>> hyperlinks contained in the email Heptapod sends out are no longer 
>> direct links, but are wrapped in a tracking service.
>>
>> For example, instead of:
>> https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/mercurial-devel/-/pipelines/97137
>>
>> Heptapod now sends:
>> https://hgaigfa.r.af.d.sendibt2.com/tr/cl/kml_gIG4w4iPJMEkNdiG9NBdPn5rqerPYXrvVGRDIH2jXnGmwV_gmjlcfoSO0oN8VRt_UC5neVlQUVVF5m4jo0JqRXfXv7diPoGGuy9DRIZ5_KwhURXTjfLlt5BSTgm7yRKWwaRmC4Te-d_p7o7aG9uV8_St_zzwQFyPlJeg_BiN37pw1clL0B18GwrQboRFFDzWYpjlfNkIN-4sfkBQfNEyVS-ju_BdAZhCvvVmtirluNM_iUxE-DSeQIfv3Lhi9ppJeZKc9S9Jv7zlva_pfFP4SDW4jZ2uy7OAEQYeCNwBQNzoVlIWP-Wuy4O6O3dvhCBP-1m2UGX30DDVjOYXbTui56bGCtKZ 
>>
>>
>> I understand that Heptapod is a product by a for-profit company (it 
>> used to be Octobus; is it Orbeet nowadays?),
> It is Orbeet, yes. That being said foss.h.n is not a commercial product.
>> which has every right to take business-related decisions. However, I 
>> find the use of an email link tracking service unsettling, and I 
>> wanted to kindly ask if this change was discussed/announced somewhere.
>>
>> Was the outage (not a problem per-se) a consequence of this 
>> modification? If so, a more direct language in the response would 
>> have been appreciated
>
> No, it's the other way round : the outage was due to our previous mail 
> account expiring, part of a long story about a French provider that 
> would put us too far for this thread.
>
> I've seen the new links, I don't like them either (and certainly make 
> no use of the corresponding tracking). It is simply a consequence of 
> having switched to Clever Cloud's standard provider for sending 
> emails. Of course I noticed only after the fact, and then, well, I'd 
> already moved on to the next pressing issue.
>
> The subject is not completely closed however : we did not yet 
> reinstate a proper mailbox for incoming email. Perhaps we'll be able 
> to fix that when we do.
>
> Best,
>
>
>> .
>>
>> Thank you
>> Antonio
>>
>>
>> On 15/01/25 14:18, Georges Racinet wrote:
>>> On 15/01/2025 14:17, PIERRE AUGIER wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Since few days, I do not receive emails from foss.heptapod.net. I 
>>>> saw that it affects at least another user 
>>>> https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/foss.heptapod.net/-/issues/461
>>>>
>>>> Are there people who continue to receive emails from 
>>>> foss.heptapod.net?
>>>>
>>>> George, are you aware of this issue?
>>>
>>> Yes, we're working on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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