Re: [Savannah-help-public] Redirecting bug-gnu-emacs to emacsbugs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> RMS requested a few weeks ago to help Don setup bug-gnu-emacs so as to
>> pass all of its traffic through a Debbugs instance that we've setup.
>> 
>> More specifically, here's what we have now:
>> 
>> address@hidden is a Mailman mailing-list
>> 
>> Don has setup a Debbugs bug tracker that we use for Emacs at
>> http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/.
>> All bugs sent there (and subsequent discussion) is sent to
>> a mailing-list address@hidden
>> 
>> What we'd like is the following:
>> 
>> All email sent to address@hidden should not go to Mailman,
>> but instead it should be forwarded to
>> address@hidden
>> 
>> Then all mail currently sent from Emacsbugs to the
>> address@hidden mailing list should be distributed to
>> the members of the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list.
>> 
>> I can edit /etc/aliases on fencepost to add an alias
>> 
>> bug-gnu-emacs: address@hidden
>> 
>> which hopefully would take precedence over Mailman, but then I don't
>> know how to let mail from address@hidden be sent to
>> Mailman.  Is there a "address@hidden" address I could
>> use?

> Hi,

> Well, there's no magic. The only working
> "address@hidden" adress is "address@hidden",
> so if you want to make that one point to somewhere else, we need to
> rename the Mailman mailing list.

So how 'bout doing the forwarding in Mailman: email coming in without an
"Re:" or a "In-Reply-To:" or a "References:" and not coming from
address@hidden should not be distributed to the list
but to address@hidden instead.


        Stefan