Quoting Julien Plissonneau Duquène (2025-06-01 12:05:43) > Hi Jonas, > > Le 2025-05-31 21:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > > > The problem is that the confident submitter is a bot. > > > > In the concrete case, I replied to point out that the bug closure was a > > mistake. That reply bounced. > > > > Is it wrong of me to cc the "person" interacting with a bugreport? > > > > Is it wrong of me to expect being able to reach that "person"? Easily? > > I suppose that in this specific case you wanted to interact with the > author of the commit, not with the bot or the author of the bot or its > admin. > > It is not wrong, however with the current state of anti-spam measures > having bots that send mail with a "From: " address that could belong to > any foreign domain is not a good practice. So the sender address will > probably have to remain as it is, as arguably a bounce is a better > feedback here than silently accepting a message that will be ignored. > > But the "Reply-To: " field of the bot message could certainly be > populated with the names and addresse(s) of the author and/or committer > (and NNN@b.d.o). Would that work for your case?
Not entirely sure, but yes, that sounds like a sensible solution to me. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
