Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> My mail client is a script, ~/bin/mail-handler; which, I think,
> is not permissible in reportbug-ng. In other words, the user can not
> configure the reporter; they can ask the author to add in some standard
> mail clients; but not the non-standard ones.
It shouldn't be a huge problem to provide the option you want, but since
it is a rather exotic (I assume most people just use a mail client), it
isn't currently of high priority for me.
>> That's not true. As I already told you, all you have to do is to send
>> me a valid call of your mail client where the composer opens with to-,
>> subject- and body prefilled.
>
> But this is not configuration; and the lack of configurability
> is what I complained about. I can't tell reportbug-ng about my one off
> simple little script that does some stuff and sends mail out.
>
> What you are talking about is your willingness to add in any of
> thousands of mail clients that users might request (which, BTW, might
> not scale all that well if reportbug-ng gets popular and all kinds of
> people start sending in strange requests, and then later, other people
> send in bug reports about how the behaviour of all the gazillion mail
> clients has changed subtly and broken the bug reporting software).
I think realistically we're talking about roughly a dozen different mail
clients (surely not thousands) which should cover 99% of all users
needs. I don't see a problem here.
>> Most mail clients I know support either
>> foo-mua mailto:mail@example.com?subject=foosubject&body=foobody
>> or
>> foo-mua -to mail@example.com -subject foosubject -body foobody
>
>> Send me the name of your mail client you're missing and a working call
>> and I'll include it.
>
> ~/bin/mail-handler --subject 'foosubject' --to 'tosomeone' < body
>
> I can also handle the old BSD 4.4 Lite mail programs command
> line syntax. What if the location changes? Or I change the syntax of my
> mailing script (to, say, do some security related stuff [like passing
> the mail through a guard program t redact sensitive material])?
I might add a pseudo mail client "command line" where you can use three
variables (to, subject and body) to construct you own call, but again
this hasn't currently a high priority for me although I'm sure I will
implement it some day.
Cheers,
Bastian
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Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de
Debian Developer venthur at debian org
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