Right now replying to mails you didn't receive directly (and e.g. found in the archives) is awfully painful, and hard to get right. I think it'd be really beneficial if we could find a way to make this easier. It'd be especially important if we actually start reviews by mail (as was requested as an alternative to GitHub) where some of the interested parties wouldn't be in CC from mail one. One possible option is to have 'resend this to me' option in archives to get a mail or a whole thread resent to a developer, with preserved threading-related headers, so that he could reply straight to the received mail. However, this would probably either require some auth on archives site, or maybe manual triggering via some script on woodpecker. Another option would be to have mbox format export, so developers could import the mails into their mail client.
For 'resend this to me', we can give you an address like gentoo-dev+get-77211@lists.gentoo.org That will send you message #77211 from the gentoo-dev list; optionally only if you are subscribed. UX: - Web page has a link for "Request an email copy of this mail", it will give you a URL of 'mailto:gentoo-dev+get-77211@lists.gentoo.org'. - User sends the request email - User gets the original email back The only slight catch is that it's a pain to parse the message number from mails. The only place you can presently get it is in the return path.
(In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #1) > For 'resend this to me', we can give you an address like > gentoo-dev+get-77211@lists.gentoo.org > > That will send you message #77211 from the gentoo-dev list; optionally only > if you are subscribed. > > UX: > - Web page has a link for "Request an email copy of this mail", it will give > you a URL of 'mailto:gentoo-dev+get-77211@lists.gentoo.org'. > - User sends the request email > - User gets the original email back > > The only slight catch is that it's a pain to parse the message number from > mails. The only place you can presently get it is in the return path. this sounds like a good suggestion, so +1 for a feature like this
(In reply to Robin Johnson from comment #1) > For 'resend this to me', we can give you an address like > gentoo-dev+get-77211@lists.gentoo.org > > That will send you message #77211 from the gentoo-dev list; optionally only > if you are subscribed. > > UX: > - Web page has a link for "Request an email copy of this mail", it will give > you a URL of 'mailto:gentoo-dev+get-77211@lists.gentoo.org'. > - User sends the request email > - User gets the original email back Works for me. > The only slight catch is that it's a pain to parse the message number from > mails. The only place you can presently get it is in the return path. What is the message number, exactly? Maybe we could just use the hash used to identify mails on archives.
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #3) > What is the message number, exactly? Maybe we could just use the hash used > to identify mails on archives. It's a sequence number assigned by the mlmmj list manager, when initially receiving a mail for distribution. The hash is introduced separately during our archival process, and the list manager has no knowledge of it.
