Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how?
On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 15:02:43 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Sven Joachim composed on 2016-10-31 19:41 (UTC+0100):
>
> >On 2016-10-31 14:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >>I added subscriptions to these debian mailing lists in recent weeks:
> >>debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org
> >>debian-testing-request@lists.debian.org
> >>debian-multimedia-request@lists.debian.org
>
> >>Now I'm getting lots of bug mail with large attachments, so I want to
> >>unsubscribe from only whichever list is causing this bug mail. NAICT
> >>the unwanted mails only report from owner@bugs.debian.org. If there's
> >>anything in the complete message headers to have triggered their being
> >>sent to me, I'm not seeing it.
>
> >They are sent to the lists because those are the "Maintainers" of
> >packages and thus receive mail from the Debian BTS.
>
> >>Can anyone tell what I should be
> >>looking for or where to go to get these stopped please?
>
> >The easiest way is to unsubscribe at least from debian-boot since this
> >list receives a lot of bug mails as you can see for yourself[1].
>
> Lots of mails doesn't bother me. It's the sizes that do, 40k, 60k, 90k seem
> to be routine. It seems they are noticeably slowing down my email program's
> handling of its mbox files.
90k is nothing. 1M wouldn't be unusual in debian-systemd.
Sven Joachim has given the reason why you you get the mails. If you do
not want them you will have to look to your own resources. With POP3 you
could find mailfilter useful.
--
Brian.
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