Comment 13 for bug 5292

There was some discussion on this issue in #launchpad today ( http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/03/07/#launchpad.html ). The conclusion seemed to be that this was not a bug in launchpad, but rather a bug in the way that the @ubuntu.com aliasing was set up. For any number of reasons, launchpad users may want to set a given address as their preferred address, especially because launchpad will use this address on outgoing messages, and this ought be supported.

One solution that was suggested as now feasible would be to have a completely separate webapp that authenticates against LP, verifies membership in ~ubuntumembers via the LP API, and then permits the user to set an address to which @ubuntu.com mail should be forwarded. This address could be checked / confirmed etc. as necessary before being added to the aliases table.