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Bug#1001190: tracker.debian.org: news: emails: show Message-ID header, link to lists.d.o/msgid-search



On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 09:23 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> The tracker doesn't receive emails via mailing lists, it gets sent a
> direct copy from the various services.

Ah. That is the case for Debian but maybe not for other instances,
so I think this could be useful for some distros eventually.

> What's the "domain" of an email message? The one from the sender?

The one in the List-Id or the recipient that is a mailing list server,
but as you say that isn't available for Debian.

> I don't see how this can be helpful if you have to look up the message on
> your own.

Agreed, but it is better than having no idea where the archives are at
all and having to do a web search for that or go to the domain and then
try to find the mailing list and click into the list archives.

> This, however, is something that is clearly more in line with the logic
> of distro tracker. I agree that a query to lookup a message-id could be
> useful.

Excellent.

> (And actually I am interested in tracking message-id of everything that
> went through distro-tracker to be able to drop duplicates easily and/or
> present other summary views to the respective maintainers)

That seems useful too.

> > I think the options I presented above are generic enough to have a low
> > enough cost. For cases not covered by them I think as a compromise, it
> > would be reasonable to just show the Message-ID header with no link.
> 
> This is also reasonable, indeed.

Great.

Thanks for the discussion :)

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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