Email Forwarding

Emails to @torproject.org addresses go through an LDAP distributed email system. This system uses the forwarding field in the LDAP directory to route mail without passing it through a user's .forward file on a single host. Multiple machines participate in the forwarding to provide redundancy.

Each forwarder inspects the LDAP database to determine the forwarding address for foo@torproject.org. The envelope to address is rewritten and the message redirected to the new address. As that redirection occurs on the mail relays, there is no opportunity for the use of .forward files, procmail or other filtering. Extension addresses (foo-lists) are supported, but the extension will not be preserved when forwarding - i.e. if foo@torproject.org redirects to foo@example.com, then foo-lists@torproject.org also redirects to foo@example.com.

The email forwarding can be easily reconfigured using GnuPG:

echo "emailforward: foo@bar.com" | gpg --clearsign | mail changes@db.torproject.org

or by visiting db.torproject.org

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You can contact us at torproject-admin@torproject.org.