Hi Jonas, Le 2025-05-31 21:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
The problem is that the confident submitter is a bot. In the concrete case, I replied to point out that the bug closure was a mistake. That reply bounced. Is it wrong of me to cc the "person" interacting with a bugreport? Is it wrong of me to expect being able to reach that "person"? Easily?
I suppose that in this specific case you wanted to interact with the author of the commit, not with the bot or the author of the bot or its admin.
It is not wrong, however with the current state of anti-spam measures having bots that send mail with a "From: " address that could belong to any foreign domain is not a good practice. So the sender address will probably have to remain as it is, as arguably a bounce is a better feedback here than silently accepting a message that will be ignored.
But the "Reply-To: " field of the bot message could certainly be populated with the names and addresse(s) of the author and/or committer (and NNN@b.d.o). Would that work for your case?
Cheers, -- Julien Plissonneau Duquène