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

[Stephen J. Turnbull via RT]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > I hoped Don or Stephen would know what to tell you, because I don't.
 > The quoted thread already says what I know:
 > 
 > 1 - Mail that is sent to address@hidden should be redirected to
 >     address@hidden (and not distributed to the
 >     recipients of the address@hidden mailing-list).
 > 2 - Mail coming from the address@hidden to
 >     address@hidden should be distributed to the recipients of the
 >     address@hidden list.

What I wrote earlier:

 >> So you should currently have an alias (sendmail-style, and I'm kinda
 >> guessing here, depends on Mailman version and suchlike)
 >>
 >> bug-gnu-emacs:          "|/var/lib/mailman/bin/mailman post bug-gnu-emacs"
 >>
 >> Change that to
 >>
 >> bug-gnu-emacs:          address@hidden
 >> bug-gnu-emacs-really:   "|/var/lib/mailman/bin/mailman post bug-gnu-emacs"
 >>
 >> You need to make "address@hidden" be an
 >> alias of bug-gnu-emacs in the Mailman interface.

should work, with Don's cooperation:

 >> Obviously you need the right configuration of the debbugs program at
 >> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, pointing back to "bug-gnu-emacs-really".

And there's the inevitable spam-fighting caveat:

 >> Note that you now have three addresses where spam can get into the
 >> pipeline.  I don't know how these "internal" addresses leak out, but
 >> they sometimes do.  So you may wish to restrict the envelope sender to
 >> bug-gnu-emacs-really to be "emacsbugs".

HTH,

Steve