Re: Gerrit emails

[Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>]

On 2019-10-17 3:12 a.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Gerrit-generated emails I get from the list have the addressee headers
> set as follows:
> 
>   From: "Christian Biesinger (Code Review)" <gerrit@gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io>
>   To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>,	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>   Cc: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>,	Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
>   Reply-To: cbiesinger@google.com, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca, tdevries@suse.de, cbiesinger@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> (It could be that some of these are generated by the list server, not
> by Gerrit itself.)
> 
> This causes Emacs's Rmail to produce duplicate addresses in the reply
> email:
> 
>   To: cbiesinger@google.com, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca, tdevries@suse.de, cbiesinger@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>   Cc: cbiesinger@google.com,	gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tdevries@suse.de,	simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
> 
> And that forces me to manually edit the email headers of the response
> before sending, which is a nuisance.
> 
> Can this be fixed not to produce duplicate addresses, please?
> 
> TIA

Hi Eli,

Ok, so the addresses are duplicated between the "To:" and the "Reply-to:" fields.

I am not sure what a client is expected to do in that case.  There seems to be some
divergence between clients, for example Thunderbird doesn't duplicate the addresses
when I hit "Reply all".  Perhaps Rmail can be modified to not put an address in CC
if it sees it's already in the To field?

I did not find any setting in Gerrit to omit the "Reply-to" field of the sent messages,
so I fear it won't be possible to change it in the immediate.  I can try to look
at modifying Gerrit from source, but that will take a bit of time.

Another annoyance on my side is that when I hit "Reply all", it includes the address
of the sender, gerrit@gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io.  However, that domain
(gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io) is not configured to forward mails, so I then receive
delivery failure notices.  I think we need to work on that, ideally making Gerrit receive
and process the emails.

Simon