[gnu.org #359140] Re: [Savannah-help-public] Redirecting bug-gnu-emacs to emacsbugs

[Joshua Ginsberg via RT]

The router is in place, and a test message behaved as expected. I'm
marking this issue resolved. Thanks!

-jag

> [jag - Mon May 05 11:18:23 2008]:
> 
> Alright, so in conclusion, the router would only permit a posting to
> address@hidden if the posting has the envelope MAIL FROM of
> address@hidden -- otherwise, the message would
> be redirected to address@hidden -- Don, I'll hang out
> in #debian on oftc to coordinate this changeover in real-time. I'm
> j00bar on IRC.
> 
> -jag
> 
> > address@hidden - Sun May 04 19:55:54 2008]:
> > 
> > On Fri, 02 May 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 
> > > > Thank you -- by "envelope from" I mean the value submitted
during the
> > > > SMTP exchange for the MAIL command, e.g. MAIL FROM:
> > > > <address@hidden> -- if this is correct,
I can
> > >              ^^^^^^
> > >             bounces
> > > 
> > > > set up the router based on that, but I'd like to also restrict the
> > > > router's action by client, that is, "What host will be sending the
> mail
> > > > that you actually want distributed to the list?" Will it be
> > > > 64.62.190.156? Or 138.23.92.77?
> > > 
> > > I do not know the host. 
> > 
> > It'll normally be 138.23.92.77, assuming that the mail is sent
> > directly from debbugs to the mailing list, and not via
> > lists.donarmstrong.com as it is currently. [Obviously, that should be
> > easily changeable if it's restricted like that, as it's not always
> > going to be that machine.]
> > 
> > > It's not terribly serious if a few messages go straight to the
> > > mailing-list without being fed through
> > > address@hidden
> > 
> > Right. And in any event, debbugs does have reasonable loop handling,
> > so most of these should be detected and discarded, *so long* as
> > X-Loop: is kept intact when the messages are forwarded to address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > Don Armstrong
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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Joshua Ginsberg <address@hidden>
Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator