The email was always the weak spot in the system, it collects a lot of spam. As for not getting responses, no doubt the sending of email is broken in some way? Or perhaps it was disabled because it it was generating a lot of backscatter from the spam.
Have a nice day, On 6 December 2017 at 04:43, Martin Eberhard Schauer < martin.e.scha...@gmx.de> wrote: > > What about mail interface? Does somebody still using it? > > Do we need it? > > Please don't skip the mail interface. It is very helpful for understaffed > "teams" like the german one (basically me). > > I don't use the mail interface to get new work to translate. I use it for > trivial changes in my point of view. > > Over all, i think that the mail interface is a powerful tool, but > dangerous as well. $(random contributor) has direct access without review. > Perhaps the access to it should be coupled to a DDTP account. > > A nice feature before the move to ddtp2.debian.net was the automatic > answer to submissions. It showed errors in the files submitted and > contained a direct link to the new database entry. At present one has to > open the web interface to check whether the translation made it into the DB > and if the encoding is ok. According to file(1) I send "UTF-8 Unicode > English text, with very long lines". Sometimes I forget to change > "Description-de:" to "Description-de.UTF-8:" and get garbage. The mail > digestion routine relys on this instead of checking the file type of the > attachment. > > Beatrice, Joe, Helix84; Martijn: I'm very interested in your opinion. > > -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
