Re: Incorrect response address when using B4

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024, Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:20:57AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:18:39PM GMT, Daniel Gomez wrote:
>> > > Was it an automated tool that sent you that message? Normally, email clients
>> > > would honour the "Reply-To" field and not use the From: address put in by the
>> > > relay.
>> > 
>> > It was a CI Patchwork tool. Response [1] to my patch was sent from "From:
>> > Patchwork <patchwork@emeril.freedesktop.org>".
>> > 
>> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/172735727458.1107233.1757281470637305143@2413ebb6fbb6/
>> > 
>> > I think that tool is ignoring the "Reply-To" field [2] from the B4 message and
>> > using the From field.
>> > 
>> > 	From: Daniel Gomez via B4 Relay <devnull+da.gomez.samsung.com@kernel.org>
>> > 	Reply-To: da.gomez@samsung.com
>> 
>> It's no big deal as long as you got the email response in the end. We expect
>> this to happen with a lot of automation, which is why any replies to the relay
>> address are auto-discarded.
>
> To clarify, the email response didn't land into my inbox. I realized a response
> was sent after checking at lore.kernel.org.

Yeah, our patchwork instance tries not to spam everyone, and limits the
replies to the submitter + intel-gfx/intel-xe mailing lists, but
apparently uses From instead of Reply-To.


BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel