Dear announce-help, I hope that someone will be able to help me with the following problem:
I am trying to publish a new release of Apache Derby (http://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10.14.1.0.cgi). I have successfully sent the release announcement to our user and developer lists. However, I have not been able to send the release announcement to the announce@ mailing list. So far, the Infrastructure team has not been able to coach me through these problems: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15311.
I served as a release manager two years ago. At that time, I was able to ssh to an Apache machine and use the command line mail tool in order to post the release announcement to announce@. Unfortunately, committers can't directly log onto Apache machines today.
I have failed to configure my Thunderbird mail tool to use the Apache relay service, per Infrastructure's advice as described here: https://reference.apache.org/committer/email#sendingemailfromyourapacheorgemailaddress. I don't know why. Maybe the Apache relay service is not a mail provider supported by Thunderbird. Maybe Thunderbird requires incoming as well as outgoing configuration parameters and the Apache instructions only state the outgoing parameters.
I have also failed to configure sendmail on my Mac OSX machine. At this point, I am very far afield, very far outside my skill set.
I would appreciate your advice on how to post a release announcement to announce@.
Thanks, -Rick
