[Savannah-dev] [Bug #912] no e-mail alias/forward created for new user

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=================== BUG #912: LATEST MODIFICATIONS ==================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=912&group_id=11

Changes by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden>
Date: 2002-Aug-01 11:37 (Europe/Amsterdam)

------------------ Additional Follow-up Comments ----------------------------
I didn't at first, but on most machines I know, an acount does entitle you to 
_send_ mail. Since at gnu.org sending mail is restricted to those having a 
email address, I thought 
.. oh well it's working now. I've made a small script to extract the diffs from 
the URLs. Now I only have to figure how to pipe these back into our ML. 

I'm sorry for having been so irritated. 

Greetings, HW.




=================== BUG #912: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================


Submitted by: hanwen                    Project: Savannah                       
Submitted on: 2002-Jul-27 12:12
Category:  Mail                         Severity:  5 - Average                  
Priority:  None                         Bug Group:  None                        
Resolution:  Wont Fix                   Assigned to:  villate                   
Status:  Closed                         Effort:  0.00                           

Summary:  no e-mail alias/forward created for new user

Original Submission:  A developer registered under the login matsb, but 
syncmail crashes when he does a CVS commit. Apparently, no login was created on 
either subversions or savannah, causing the mail to bounce, due to invalid 
sender.



Follow-up Comments
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Date: 2002-Aug-01 11:37             By: hanwen
I didn't at first, but on most machines I know, an acount does entitle you to 
_send_ mail. Since at gnu.org sending mail is restricted to those having a 
email address, I thought 
.. oh well it's working now. I've made a small script to extract the diffs from 
the URLs. Now I only have to figure how to pipe these back into our ML. 

I'm sorry for having been so irritated. 

Greetings, HW.


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Date: 2002-Aug-01 11:14             By: villate
1. Where did you get the idea that having a Savannah account
entitled you to have an e-mail address in the gnu.org domain?
On the other hand if you want to send mail from an application running in 
Savannah (such as the now defunct syncmail or log_accum), to a user such as 
matsb, you can do it by simply referring to him as matsb (no @ and nothing else 
after it)

2.
> If you don't support syncmail, then why is it in FAQ?

Because for the past few months since somebody put it there
by mistake I've been terrified at the idea of having to learn texinfo to get 
rid of that part of the FAQ.

I finally did it and there should be no references to syncmail left in the 
manual (if you find any still remaining, please report them as a bug). 


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Date: 2002-Jul-31 13:02             By: hanwen
It was not clear to me that you don't get a forwarding address, you're running 
a sourceforge clone after all.
In  that case you mean "using syncmail from savannah is not possible" (which is 
different from "unsupported")  I'll look into commit_prep and friends; 
hopefully they will generate pure diffs as well.


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Date: 2002-Jul-31 12:45             By: yeupou
We havent understood your request since it's clear that savannah does  not give 
to users a gnu.org account.

For instance, creating an account on savannah does not provide a email 
address@hidden

The destination address@hidden does not exist. You have to specify a real email 
address.

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Date: 2002-Jul-31 12:35             By: hanwen
1. You're not reading my bugreport. The email aliases don't work: mail for gnu 
machines all goes to mail.gnu.org who claims not to know matsb. Should I 
forward you the bounce mails? Also, my other recently added developer (rz) has 
the same problem, suggesting that the problem is not at s3.kth.se. (or are 
these aliases not supposed to work?)

<address@hidden>: host fencepost.gnu.org[199.232.76.164] said: 550
    Unknown local part matsb in <address@hidden>


<address@hidden>: host mail.gnu.org[199.232.76.166] said: 550 Unknown local part
    matsb in <address@hidden>


<address@hidden>: host fencepost.gnu.org[199.232.76.164] said: 550
    Unknown local part matsb in <address@hidden>

2. If you don't support syncmail, then why is it in FAQ?

https://savannah.gnu.org/docs/admin.php#Getting%20email%20from%20CVS

2b. I prefer syncmail a lot over the standard savannah procedure, because 
(IIRC) you have to click, and wait for the webbrowser to load the page whose 
diff you want to see. 
And you have to do that separately for every file you wish to inspect. With 
syncmail you get one diff per directory, which is much closer to the ideal (one 
diff per commit).



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Date: 2002-Jul-31 09:41             By: villate
No, there is nothing wrong with the login for matsb. He has
a home directory as any other users, and an e-mail alias:
  matsb:address@hidden
The problem could be at the address in kth.se, or in syncmail.
We do not support syncmail; please use log_accum and commit_prep as explained 
in the Savannah admin manual.

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Date: 2002-Jul-31 01:49             By: hanwen
Hello

HELLO ? 

Earth calling Savannah-hackers?
 




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