Is there a way to subscribe to a large set of bugs, without having to
reply to multiple confirmation messages (one for each bug)?

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Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

> Is there a way to subscribe to a large set of bugs, without having to
> reply to multiple confirmation messages (one for each bug)?

I've hacked a procmail script which might to autoreply the confirm
messages.. forgive me if I missed something obvious (too much coffee!)

FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail

:0c
* ^From.pts@qa.debian.org
* ^Subject: CONFIRM.*
{
:0
| $FORMAIL -brt -I "From: Jamin Davis <jlis@ghost.merseine.nu>" | \
$SENDMAIL -t
}

I have wanted to do this for a while myself - just looked at the exim log
and it seems to work. Woo hoo!

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On 2007-08-17 02:37:40 +0100, Jamin Davis wrote:
> I've hacked a procmail script which might to autoreply the confirm
> messages.. forgive me if I missed something obvious (too much coffee!)

I wanted to avoid sending a confirmation for every bug, but if one
can't do otherwise, using procmail is better than nothing. I've
done a few more checks: as the request for confirmation includes
a copy of the headers of the subscription mail, I can check that
these are really my headers, and not something a spammer sent with
my address in the "From:".

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Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)


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