Bogus raspberry pi forum alert email??

[Bosse_B]

Today I got an alert email on a response to my over two years old thread about installing CVS on an RPi box.

But when I click on the links in the email I am getting to a login page at a location I don't recognize at all (I have stripped off the ending URL part):
https://lb.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63
Is this some kind of phishing attempt? Seems like that since it pops up a logon screen.

Normally if a link like this from the forum requires logon I would start a new tab and go to the general discussions forum (via a shortcut I have saved) and I will be logged on automatically. Then I would return to the previous tab and refresh and be logged in.
No so in this case!

Upon further inspection I see that the URL is a bit different from the normal forum URL, which should be:
viewforum.php?f=63

Is there some pirate operating on subdomain lb rather than www?

EDIT:
FYI here is what I found in the email headers:
Received: from pmta02.mandrill.prod.atl01.rsglab.com (127.0.0.1) by mail132-20.atl131.mandrillapp.com id h064us1sar8l for ...

What is mandrillapp.com???

[drgeoff]

Probably legit.

There was a thead recently about 'lb'. It is "load balancer".

[WillBoxOwO]

Dont mind this off topic comment, I want to see updates of this post (if theres any) in my "Your posts" tab

[Heater]

No idea where the mail came from.

raspberrypi.org is of course legit.

lb.raspberrypi.org is the raspberrypi.org load balancer.

https://lb.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63 says "The requested topic does not exist."

[Bosse_B]

In that case why am I not logged on automatically? Really suspicious looking.

[DirkS]

In that case why am I not logged on automatically? Really suspicious looking.

Because your credentials are not saved for that exact host name?

[drgeoff]

What is mandrillapp.com???

https://compojoom.com/what-is-mandrill

[rpdom]

What is mandrillapp.com???

https://compojoom.com/what-is-mandrill

What he said. We use Mandrill at work for sending out general notification emails to customers instead of hammering our own email servers.

[Bosse_B]

Please point the email links to the real forum URL:s instead of the other one!