Re: [Savannah-help-public] bugsdb <-> mailing list connection

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Posting bugs to Savane through a mail interface is currently not possible.

The main blockers are:
- handling spam
- respecting posting privileges (while a mail address can be easily faked)

For the 2nd point we might offer to disable posting privileges when
enabling a mail interface - that could simplify the problem.


There's a 3rd blocker though:
- clean-up the code

I'm working on that atm.


Suggestions welcome :)

-- 
Sylvain

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:32:38PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Sylvain and all,
> 
> I've been trying to help Anton Ertl (GNU gforth/vmgen maintainer)
> reconfigure things so that a bug report in the savannah web interface
> goes to the relevant mailing list.  It mostly works, but there is one
> issue Anton asked me about, included below.  I am not sure if there's
> anything in Savane which can help here (I don't know of anything), so I
> thought I'd ask.
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl
> 
> 
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:32:25 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Anton Ertl" <address@hidden>
> 
> [...]
> 
> However, there is one remaining issue with both bug databases:
> 
> When I change something or write a comment through the web interface,
> then the From: address of the mail is
> 
> From: Anton Ertl <address@hidden>
> 
> even though the system knows my email address and displays it in the
> profile, so probably no direct communication through email to someone
> submitting a bug report is possible.  I like the way it is handled by
> the gcc bugzilla, which has a
> 
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> 
> so email replies show up in the bug database and get distributed to
> everyone interested in the bug.  Is something like this possible in
> Savannah?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> - anton