Re: BTS not archiving Bcc: mails? [was: Re: inconsistent mailgraph settings]
On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Yes, but only the notification (and one needs to see the full message).
> But what if the close message is sent when an empty From or with
> a From containing the 999999999999-close@bugs.debian.org address
> of the bug[*] (such messages could come from spammers)?
>
> [*] That could yield a loop, and this may depend on how it is broken.
On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> Yet the BTS says that the message with this Message-Id has closed the bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989734;msg=29
There some (understandable) confusion here. The BTS reports closures as
"Reply sent to whoever@example.com: You have taken responsibility. (Fri,
20 Aug 2021 13:33:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link)." and has done so for
about 20 years.
The BTS (like all e-mail systems) totally ignores what is in To/Cc when
processing e-mail, and only pays attention to the SMTP RCPT TO and MAIL
FROM.
Normally -done messages include the done address in the To: header, so
it's pretty obvious which message actually caused a bug to be closed,
but it is not required.
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