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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
To: Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>
Cc: owner@bugs.debian.org, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
Subject: Re: looping gcc/bugzilla <-> bugs.debian mail
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:28:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200319032816.GA15153@cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2003182236030.10208@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:37:10PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Don Armstrong via Overseers wrote:
>>On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Frank Ch.  Eigler wrote:
>>>We have a mail loop situation happening between bugs.debian.org and
>>>sourceware.org (= gcc.gnu.org)'s bugzilla servers.  Can you advise
>>>whether we should stop this somehow or whether you can from your end?
>>
>>Your bugzilla setup is stripping off all of the X-Loop and other
>>relevant headers when it forwards mail it receives, so it's made it
>>very difficult to automatically mitigate this kind of mail loop.
>
>I'm not sure if Bugzilla has any connection between the incoming and
>outgoing emails.  It may just generate a comment from an incoming
>email, and generate an outgoing email from a new comment independent of
>how that comment was added.

That was my understanding too but maybe we could just automatically add
an X-Loop for the email address from the comment if that helped.

cgf


      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-19  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17 13:33 Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 20:06 ` Don Armstrong
2020-03-18 21:21   ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-22 20:38     ` Don Armstrong
2020-03-22 20:40       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-22 21:50         ` Don Armstrong
2020-03-22 21:53           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 22:37   ` Joseph Myers
2020-03-19  3:28     ` Christopher Faylor [this message]

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