On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 03:54:28PM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:10:43PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > >At least people could be warned that because of the domain they send > > >from their mail might not get through. > > > > > My guess is that such a warning email (which is the only way we'd have to > > do it) would also cause a lot of complaints. > > > I think we [...] will need to have the BTS send all emails from > > bugs.debian.org role addresses and not use the sender's email in From > > anymore. > > Just to make sure I understand the constraints: we can determine at sending > time whether a particular domain is going to cause trouble or not, right? > If so could this rewrite scheme be applied only for recipients where it's > absolutely necessary?
I haven't looked into this in a lot of detail, but my concern would be that that would end up being flaky and confusing in practice. I think people want the behaviour of the BTS to be easily predictable without having to get an advanced degree in MTA debugging first. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
