On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Graham Binns wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm currently getting stuck into the better bugnotifications story[1] > and I think we need to settle how notifications from Launchpad should > be addressed. I'm working on three bugs, specifically: > > * launchpad leaks private email addresses when sending mail [2] > * Malone comments are sent in email and forge the address of the > person who filed them [3] > * Bug notifications have personal To: header but aren't personal [4] > > I had planned to fix the first two of these bugs in one branch by > simply having all bug notifications have From address of > [email protected], as can be seen in [5]. However, after a bit > of investigation, Deryck pointed out that merge proposal notifications > have a From address of the Person who triggered the notification with > the Reply-to being set to the MP itself. > > So, question #1: What should the From: address be for bug > notifications? There are two possible options, as I see it: > > 1. Always use [email protected] > 2. Use the Person's preferred email address where possible (i.e > assuming they have one and that they haven't marked their email > addresses as private), otherwise use [email protected].
Since you include me in the "To" list, I feel like I should reply. :-) Therefore, I prefer #2, though I don't feel strongly about it. > To compensate people who like to filter bugmail by sender, I'd > proposed adding an X-Launchpad-Sender header to the bugmail, > containing the user's LP name. This could still be used for both of > the above solutions. +1 > As for the third bug, I'm trying to work out a way to have an > impersonal To address for bugmail (probably [email protected], > or some noreply address). The first solution to come to mind was to > have: > > To: [email protected] > Bcc: [email protected] I like this. > > Which seems to fit the description of the bug. I'm open to other > solutions, however. > > I think it makes sense to standardise on this across Launchpad, +1 > so if > there's something that already exists to handle all this please point > it out to me so I can see if it's reusable. Not to my knowledge, but Curtis or Björn might be better informed. > > TIA, > > Graham > > [1] > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bugs?field.tag=story-better-bug-notification > [2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/111147 > [3] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/31586 > [4] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/138592 > [5] > https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~gmb/launchpad/dont-leak-email-addresses-bug-111147 > > -- > Graham Binns | PGP Key: EC66FA7D _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
