On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:53:47 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:35:29 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> >>>> The madduck script automates subscribing to the bugs that you've filed >>>> for you. There's no need to do this manually. >>> >>> If I have correctly read the script, it can be fine for users using >>> procmail, is that right? >>> >>> If yes, I'm not such user, I use Mutt and my Gmail IMAP account and >>> from time to time, I use reportbug and even another computers which do >>> not run Debian... so I'm afraid the workaround won't be of any help in >>> my case :-( >> >> I haven't kept the script but I remember a loop with a "sendmail -f >> ...". You can substitute whatever command is equivalent on your box. > > Yep, I suppose that command could be replaced by invoking "mutt", instead. > >> This script and the BTS aren;t tied in to the box from which you report >> a script. As long as you have a Debian or Ubuntu or other Debian >> derivative box with devscripts installed, you should be able to >> auto-subscribe with this script to all the bugs that you've reported.
> As I read it, the script is basically a loop that retrieves the bug > number for all the bugs that have been sent by the reporter and sends > subcription e-mails to the BTS robot... but you still have to manually > reply to the incoming confirmation e-mails, right? And this is when the > Procmail recipe comes into play, I guess, to close the cycle. I don't remember the procmail reference but I'll trust you (I looked at the page for a few seconds at most (!) so I could easily have misread/misunderstood. You certainly have to reconfirm your subscription manually or otherwise... > It can be useful for mass-susbcriptions and mass-confirmation (when used > alongside Procmail or a similar filter to do the job) but is still too > much work -IMO- for bug reporters that are not using such mailing schema. I couldn't agree more but if the BTS developers want it this way, there isn't another option... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sycpkxt-n-yofu1mddctsovvugwvatloy+jjyzerxn...@mail.gmail.com