Re: [Savannah-help-public] Redirecting bug-gnu-emacs to emacsbugs

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Sylvain" == Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:55:11PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> >> RMS requested a few weeks ago to help Don setup bug-gnu-emacs so as to
>> >> pass all of its traffic through a Debbugs instance that we've setup.
>> >> 
>> >> More specifically, here's what we have now:
>> >> 
>> >> address@hidden is a Mailman mailing-list
>> >> 
>> >> Don has setup a Debbugs bug tracker that we use for Emacs at
>> >> http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/.
>> >> All bugs sent there (and subsequent discussion) is sent to
>> >> a mailing-list address@hidden
>> >> 
>> >> What we'd like is the following:
>> >> 
>> >> All email sent to address@hidden should not go to Mailman,
>> >> but instead it should be forwarded to
>> >> address@hidden
>> >> 
>> >> Then all mail currently sent from Emacsbugs to the
>> >> address@hidden mailing list should be distributed to
>> >> the members of the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list.
>> >> 
>> >> I can edit /etc/aliases on fencepost to add an alias
>> >> 
>> >> bug-gnu-emacs: address@hidden
>> >> 
>> >> which hopefully would take precedence over Mailman, but then I don't
>> >> know how to let mail from address@hidden be sent to
>> >> Mailman.  Is there a "address@hidden" address I could
>> >> use?
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> 
>> > Well, there's no magic. The only working
>> > "address@hidden" adress is "address@hidden",
>> > so if you want to make that one point to somewhere else, we need to
>> > rename the Mailman mailing list.
>> 
>> So how 'bout doing the forwarding in Mailman: email coming in without an
>> "Re:" or a "In-Reply-To:" or a "References:" and not coming from
>> address@hidden should not be distributed to the list
>> but to address@hidden instead.

> Hi,

> This sounds overcomplicated. I personaly don't know how to do that in
> Mailman, and well, I doubt it is possible :)

Stephen, could you help us/him, since it seems you know how to do it?


        Stefan