Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:54:32 -0500
From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>,
	Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
	"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>,
	PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: mailing list redirect for bug numbers?
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Greetings,

* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:40 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > If we want something that would work with replies for direct CC, then
> > we'd have to (ab)use a field that we know MUAs will copy to the next
> > email on a reply and there's unfortunately few of those.  At least
> > some bug trackers have dedicated email addresses for individual bugs,
> > probably for that reason, among others.
>=20
> Technically we already have this for threads started in the form these
> days, as you can trivially get the bug number out of the message-id, and
> the message-id is one of the fields that *is* typically preserved (in the
> References header).

Hmmm, we certainly can't change the message-ID in-transit, but I wonder
about the References field and/or In-Reply-To...

> It won't cover threads that are responded to by creating a whole new thre=
ad
> and referencing the bug in the free text part of it, but there's really no
> way to handle that form inside the email...

Yeah, which also means it's difficult for someone who isn't on the list
and not on the original email to add to a bug...  That might be solved
if/when we implement the "email me this message" feature that we've
discussed a few times.

Thanks!

Stephen

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