Gerrit can receive and parse emails now

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Thursday, October 24 2019, Tom de Vries wrote:

> On 24-10-2019 00:08, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> Just a heads up that I've enabled gerrit's feature which allows it to
>> receive and parse e-mails.  Unfortunately, in order for it to work, it
>> is necessary to include all of that "junk" in the footer, otherwise the
>> parser cannot know which change the comment refers to.
>> 
>> Another thing to notice is that we should only reply to the email in the
>> Reply-To field.  Most MUAs will DTRT, but some of them may include other
>> emails (like the ones in the Cc field) in the reply, which is not a big
>> problem, but will cause message duplication.  This is because when
>> gerrit receives and parses the reply, it will automatically notify the
>> interested parties.
>> 
>> I'm still making a few minor adjustments, but things should work when
>> you reply to messages received from now on.  Bear in mind that this will
>> not work for previous messages, because the Reply-To field is obviously
>> not correct in them.
>> 
>> Let me know what you think.
>
> Hi,
>
> Nice feature.
>
> Could it be that copying gerrit updates to gdb-patches has been disabled?
>
> I don't see any gerrit updates since 4 minutes before this email.

Sorry about that, apparently there was an error in the email templates,
and when this happens gerrit silently fails to send messages...  Simon
has fixed the error meanwhile (thanks!), so things should be back to
normal now.

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