Re: At the request of those drowing in gcc-bugs email

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 05:42  PM, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:

> > > I have another request about the messages that Bugzilla generates: 
> > > could
> > > they have the name of the person responsible for the new bug, 
> > > comment,
> > > etc., in the From header (keeping the gcc-bugzilla address there as 
> > > the
> > > email address, though From can contain multiple addresses) so it's 
> > > visible
> > > on the list who is commenting on bugs?
> >
> > It's already *in* the actual text, but i'll look into it.
> > It might take me a day or so to get it done.
>
> Yes, I would really like this too. We recently had a number of people
> coming into the project and when we decided we wanted to give them 
> GNATS
> write access, I kept an eye on what they did for a while. That's
> impossible if the name of the one changing something in the database
> doesn't appear in the From: header. (I.e.: it _is_ possible, but I 
> would
> again have to look at all mails, which I don't want and can't).

Actually, we support watching.
You can do the following:

Watch the user (look at your email preferences).
Bugzilla adds a header labeled X-Bugzilla-Reason, it will be set to 
"Watched" for these emails.
Filter on that header.
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