[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #124771] bug report

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >
> >    Satish,
> >
> >      Is there anyway to change the configuration of petsc-maint so that
> > when developers respond it doesn't go directly to the user but instead goes
> > back to the petsc-maint server, it strips out the individual developers
> > email address and then forwards on to the user?
> >
> 
> We would have to configure our mailers to set reply-to appropriately.

This is what I do for myself [with pine]

> Alternative would be for petsc-maint to remove the user's email from
> reply-to when it delivers to us, then match message headers so that our
> replies which go only to petsc-maint would be forwarded to the original
> reporter. Seems very fragile.

I agree it can be fragile.

For one - I'll have to check with systems if rt can be configured this
way.  Also it would mean sender's info won't be in the header [so
where would it be?] What about 'cc:' list from sender? [we would wan't
rt to strip this out aswell - and send e-mails to the cc:list
automaticaly from our replies]. And then there will be no more private
messages [between us] on petsc-maint :)

Satish