Bug#370725: reading commands from regular emails to bug records

2006-06-10 Thread Don Armstrong
tag 370725 wontfix
thanks

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
 BTS commands are of the following form:
 
   /^[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+[[:digit:]]{6}.*/
 
 I somehow think that this is enough to be able to actually parse all
 incoming mail, not just mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has this
 been considered? It would eliminate one source of error, namely
 forgetting to bcc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The problem with doing this, is it means that all messages need to be
parsed, and to be correct, all messages then need to generate a
transcript message which should be sent back to the user sending the
mail.
 
If you want this as the default for you, it wouldn't be too difficult
to set up hooks in most MTAs to notice that you're mailing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and have it automatically Bcc: control. You'd just
get an extra mail until it went five lines wihtout a command, but I
suppose that's what is expected.


Don Armstrong

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Bug#370725: reading commands from regular emails to bug records

2006-06-06 Thread martin f krafft
Package: debbugs
Severity: wishlist

BTS commands are of the following form:

  /^[[:alpha:]]+[[:space:]]+[[:digit:]]{6}.*/

I somehow think that this is enough to be able to actually parse all
incoming mail, not just mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has this
been considered? It would eliminate one source of error, namely
forgetting to bcc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The implementation could actually limit the commands to the current
bug number (as well as -1,-2,-3,etc to support cloning).

Thanks for consideration.

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