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On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 03:54:28PM +0100, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:10:43PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > >At least people could be warned that because of the domain they send
> > >from their mail might not get through.
> > >
> > My guess is that such a warning email (which is the only way we'd have to
> > do it) would also cause a lot of complaints.  
> 
> > I think we [...] will need to have the BTS send all emails from
> > bugs.debian.org role addresses and not use the sender's email in From
> > anymore.
> 
> Just to make sure I understand the constraints: we can determine at sending
> time whether a particular domain is going to cause trouble or not, right?
> If so could this rewrite scheme be applied only for recipients where it's
> absolutely necessary?

I haven't looked into this in a lot of detail, but my concern would be
that that would end up being flaky and confusing in practice.  I think
people want the behaviour of the BTS to be easily predictable without
having to get an advanced degree in MTA debugging first.

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]

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Lack of replies Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> - 2023-12-29 23:50 +0100
  Re: Lack of replies Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> - 2023-12-30 11:00 +0100
  Re: Lack of replies Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> - 2024-01-02 19:40 +0100
    Re: Lack of replies Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-01-02 20:30 +0100
      Re: Lack of replies Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2024-01-03 04:10 +0100
        Re: Lack of replies Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-01-03 18:20 +0100
          Re: Lack of replies Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-01-03 19:40 +0100
          Re: Lack of replies Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> - 2024-01-04 16:00 +0100
            Re: Lack of replies Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-01-04 16:20 +0100
            Re: Lack of replies Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2024-01-04 16:20 +0100
              Re: Lack of replies Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> - 2024-01-04 17:00 +0100
                Re: Lack of replies Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2024-01-04 17:30 +0100
                Re: Lack of replies Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-01-04 18:10 +0100
            Re: Lack of replies Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-01-04 16:30 +0100
              Re: Lack of replies Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-01-04 17:00 +0100
      Re: Lack of replies Michael Neuffer <neuffer@neuffer.com> - 2024-01-03 06:10 +0100
        Re: Lack of replies Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-01-03 18:10 +0100

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