I'm considering reverting the change you mentioned, but you have to be more convincing than before.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:58, Kevin Locke <ke...@kevinlocke.name> wrote: > Package: reportbug > Version: 6.2.1 > Followup-For: Bug #640249 > > Dear Maintainers, > > I believe this is a regression introduced by the fix to bug #614880, > which reintroduced bug #270333. Reportbug is no longer setting the > envelope from address when sending emails. Note that in the response > that was pasted I see no indication of the envelope from address, only > the message From header. > > I contend that it is not reasonable to expect users to have local MTAs > configured to canonicalize/masquerade local user account names to public > addresses coudl you please elaborate why it's not reasonable? > and that there are legitimate cases where users will want to > report bugs with addresses different than whatever their default > envelope sender is. examples? > Also that the From header should match the envelope > sender, where possible. references to back up this assertion? -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
