How do I update the email address calm is using?

Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty hamish@hamishmb.com
Wed Feb 4 15:27:51 GMT 2026


On 31/01/2026 19:37, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 31/01/2026 18:36, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I recently managed to get back into my old email account, and found 
>> that calm has been emailing me weekly complaining that there is no 
>> !ready file an that it has ignored 11 files due to this. I'm not sure 
>> how I didn't notice but I have been very busy with other things. I 
>> was wondering how I can change calm so it sends these emails to 
>> cygwin@hamishmb.com instead, as I hadn't spotted this problem.
>
> I have updated this for you.
>
> The self-service method to achieve this is briefly mentioned in [1], 
> since this address is just taken from a file which you can overwrite 
> with sftp.
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/package-upload.html#reports
Thank you!
>
>> On another note, it appears that "cygport upload" doesn't add the 
>> !ready file. Is this intended?
> Are you sure that's what happened here?
>
> I think the files complained about here were uploaded on 2025-11-07, 
> as an attempted duplicate upload of python-imaging-11.3.0 (previously 
> uploaded on 2025-09-26).
>
> For historical reasons, we don't automatically purge such files, just 
> in case the uploader needs them.
>
> (Occasionally I manually purge such files, but I hadn't got around to 
> it yet in this case.)
Okay, I shall purge them now then.


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