On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:13:52AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: > >Is it new policy to closed bugs or what? If it is, it's very sad, > >that i can't contribute info, replying to users ccing bts, as in reply-to. > [...] > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host bugs.debian.org[140.211.166.43] said: > > 550 unknown user (in reply to RCPT TO command) > > Not closed bugs, rather archived bugs. > > And no, it's not new. Archived bugs haven't accepted mail for as long as I > can remember. Of course there was a long period where bugs weren't getting > archived but that was a technical issue rather than policy.
I think it's a relatively recent change that it gets rejected at SMTP time; you used to get a normal debbugs ack that said something like: This may be because that bug report has been resolved for more than 28 days, and the record of it has been archived and made read-only, or because you mistyped the bug report number. I think it's a step forward that it gets rejected at SMTP time, but perhaps the 550 message could be made more helpful. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
