Replies to debbugs not getting to bug author (Was: debbugs#28688)

Replies to debbugs not getting to bug author (Was: debbugs#28688)

[Kaushal Modi]

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Hello all,

I am trying to understand why a reply to a debbugs that I initiated didn't
reach my email inbox. I could see that reply only on the debbugs list.

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017, 4:13 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> () Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> () Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:42:59 +0000
>
>    I just noticed your reply here[1], but I never
>    got that email in my inbox.
>
> Probably because i dropped all but the debbugs addr in the reply
> and set headers Mail-Followup-To and Reply-To to point there as
> well.  Is that a problem?


That seems to have caused the problem. I don't use Gnus, and I don't know
how common that practice is.

So I am opening this up to a bigger audience on emacs-devel where more
folks can share how they reply to debbugs using Gnus.

Is there a reason to drop all the CC emails? I know that if you do that on
debbugs, only the original author will get the reply. The "CC'd" folks
don't get auto-subscribed to that list. So it would be a disservice to the
people dropped off the conversation.

But I was surprised that even I, the author of that debbugs, didn't get
that reply.. probably because of the "set headers Mail-Followup-To and
Reply-To" piece?

It's either that this problem happened the first time, or it's the first
time of me catching it :)

  (Is there a more idiomatic approach?)
>

I use a regular email client and just do Reply All. I believe that's
playing well with Gnus users too.

(In contrast, in this reply, i include you explicitly in To.)
>

Yes, I got this reply in my inbox.


Thanks.

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Kaushal Modi

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