Splitting automated mail from human mail?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 12:21 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 19:06 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:38 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > Getting the mail on the tracker changes is most of what makes things
> > > worse I think.  Otherwise, I really don't see a huge difference and I
> > > think that the benefits are worth the high traffic -- it's at least
> > > traffic with signal instead of just noise.
> > 
> > Compared to the review discussion bugzilla mails:
> > - Have lots of non-information on top - all the "please don't respond to
> > this by mail" blaa and such.
> 
> Yeah, this part is unfortunate.  I'm not sure that we can really do much
> about that :/

All it takes is somebody to get annoyed enough to write some sed/perl
hack to remove the extra junk in procmail I suppose :)

> 
> > - Don't have any context in them, to have the slightest clue you need to
> > go and read the bugzilla entry itself.
> 
> I find the threading to really give me reasonable enough context...
> especially as people seem to be being relatively verbose about things.

Sure, if you keep the earlier mails. Probably simply a matter of
unlearning to be so delete-trigger happy..

> 
> > - "foo at bar.com added to CC" type of mails are rather uninteresting.
> 
> We shouldn't be getting these -- I'll double check the email settings
> with dkl

Hmm.. ok having looked through quite a few bugzilla mails from today,
the "foo added to CC" do actually have comments in them. It's just that
the "added to CC" messages are shown before the comments which makes
them a bit distracting.

> 
> > Oh well ... these are relatively minor annoyances which can be dealt
> > with procmail. One of my biggest irritations about these bugzilla mails
> > here is probably mixing "real" email discussion with non-discussion
> > mail, again procmail to the rescue. Having this stuff really trackable
> > in bugzilla IS a very good thing.
> 
> The goal is that we should just be getting "actual" comment/discussion
> mails.  Maybe the right thing to do is just to only get the bugzilla
> mails on comment added and none of the other categories of bugzilla
> changes...

+1

	- Panu -