Re: emails from noreply@salsa.debian.org to bugs.debian.org
Quoting Julien Plissonneau Duquène (2025-06-01 12:05:43)
> 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?
Not entirely sure, but yes, that sounds like a sensible solution to me.
- Jonas
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