On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:46:48AM -0500, David Golden wrote: > My first thought: have "do-not-reply" go to /dev/null.
No, I need to catch bounces to non-existant address, so I can disable that account and save sending mails that are never going to be read. > Third thought: yeah, "find-a-tester" is a bit of a pain to get to quickly > -- and I know I'm less likely to follow up on reports now because of the > extra number of steps that interrupt my day (compared to back when I could > just hit "reply") > > Maybe the email should be multipart with an HTML part with nice links: > > - FAIL [view report] [view sender email address] This would seem reasonable. I'll look at revising the template. > The latter can just be a link to the cgi script like so: > > http://stats.cpantesters.org/cgi-bin/cpanmail.cgi?nntpid=[% id %] That would seem like an unnecessary step. If the author was receiving an individual report, they would already have the address. I don't have the addresses at the moment, as I originally didn't want to clutter the summaries too much. > Or, frankly a "contact author" mailto link would be better. At the moment I'm only sending ASCII mail. Might look at HTML mail and use that in the future though. > Or a link to a form that emails the sender. Ah, you mean a Matt's Script Archive formmail.cgi. ;) Cheers, Barbie. -- 2009 QA Hackathon <http://qa-hackathon.org> Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
