Package maintainers: verify your PyPI account email address
Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]>
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Heads-up: if you have a pypi.org or test.pypi.org account, please verify your email address: https://pypi.org/manage/account/ https://test.pypi.org/manage/account/ Reason: > We have a problem with a bit of our data, namely that due to historical reasons we have a fair amount of users in the database that do not have a verified primary email address. The side effect of this is that we're currently sending emails to email addresses that we have not had verified. This is a bad situation to be in, because in order to keep our bounce/spam rate low, we should be confirming all email addresses before sending email to them. In addition the way our bounce handling code works is it un-verifies the email address, which the intent was to stop sending email to it until the user has reverified their email address. > > In total there are about 193k user accounts with a unverified email address for their primary address, and 44k that do have a verified email address for their primary account. > > So we need to come up with a strategy to resolve this, because it's pretty important that we don't send email to unverified addresses. (quoting from Donald Stufft's explanation https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3632 which goes on to detail the step-by-step plan) Package maintainers should especially do this soon. As of a few days ago, any user whose primary email address is unverified can't upload a file: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/4292 Please forward to other package maintainers. After we iron out any issues I figure we'll email the announce list https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/pypi-announce.python.org/ . -- Sumana Harihareswara Changeset Consulting https://changeset.nyc -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5ER2YET54CSX4FV2VP24JA57REDDW5OI/