Thanks for looking at this. Grepping through the debbugs source, I can find several instances:
~/.cache/pk4/debbugs-2.4.1.1 master 2 $ ag From: debbugs-service 516:From: $gMaintainerEmail ($gProject $gBug Tracking System) 803:From: $gMaintainerEmail ($gProject $gBug Tracking System) 829:From: $gMaintainerEmail ($gProject $gBug Tracking System) […] I first noticed this when looking through the archives of some of our lists on master.debian.org, see e.g.: stapelberg@master:~$ grep -m 1 '^From: ' /srv/mail-archives/lists/debian-bugs-closed/debian-bugs-closed.201711 From: ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > On 2017-11-16 8:54, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> >> Currently, debbugs sends messages with From: headers in the format >> “stapelb...@debian.org (Michael Stapelberg)”. > > > Do you have an example? None of the headers in your message that opened this > bug use that format, nor do several other messages I checked. > > Regards, > > Adam -- Best regards, Michael