A few suggestions for bugzilla mail to gcc-bugs

[Daniel Berlin]

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 05:27  AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Fri, 23 May 2003, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>>>> PLEASE REPLY TO gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org ONLY, *NOT* 
>>>> gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org.
>>>
>>> Can't this be automated?
>> Actually, it can't, AFAIK.
>
> Automating it involves:
>
> * Teaching the spam-checking on gcc-bugs that gcc-bugzilla is another 
> name
> for that list, so it can accept mails with just gcc-bugzilla in the
> destination headers.  (As it presently accepts mails for 
> bug-gcc@gnu.org.)
>
> * Having Bugzilla put gcc-bugzilla in the To: header (as well as the 
> From:
> header) but really send the messages to gcc-bugs instead (as the 
> headers
> and where the message really goes are entirely independent).  So the
> headers from which a mail reader might take addresses to reply to 
> wouldn't
> mention gcc-bugs at all.  But this might not be something Bugzilla is
> designed to make easy to do.
Bugzilla simply generates the entire message (once for each person to 
receive mail about a bug, since each person has different email 
preferences)  and hands it off to sendmail (really qmail's sendmail 
emulator).

If you know how to do it given these parameters, i'm happy to do it.