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When submitter sets Reply-To to bug-foo
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
When submitter sets Reply-To to bug-foo |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jan 2015 22:53:42 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
I can't think of a way to handle this nicely but I thought I would
communicate it anyway. It hasn't happened often. But when a
submitter sets Reply-To back to the bug reporting address then the bug
is owned by the list and an automated response is generated back to
the list. See for example:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/19484
The submitter set "Reply-To: address@hidden" on the initial bug
report. That caused the bug "Reported by" to be set to the bug
submission address. Which caused the "Thank you for filing a new bug
report with debbugs.gnu.org." to be sent to the bug reporting
address, fortunately with the Bug#19484 subject so it wouldn't create
an endless loop of bug ticket. I discarded the auto acknowledgement
as useless to the list.
It is unusual to have users be this savvy and set reply-to back to the
list in that way. But once done it does seem to confuse the BTS.
Perhaps for the purpose of the Reported-By it should ignore the
address if it matches the mailing list name?
Bob
- When submitter sets Reply-To to bug-foo,
Bob Proulx <=