Re: Urgent bugzilla mainteinance needed

David Woodhouse
2007-09-23T18:31:00Z

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:08 -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Take a look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3710
> >
> > bugzilla tries to send a mail to the reporter, it fails ("unknown user account"),
> > but the error failure is appended as a bugzilla comment. Then bugzilla tries to
> > send that comment to everyone involved in the bug, including the reporter,
> > so it fails again.....Houston, we've a endless loop.
> >
> > There're 540 comments in that bug report already, and the bugme-daemon
> > mail list is being spammed....
>
> I just sent emails to those who maintain bugzilla software and systems
> that run it, hope someone will be online soon to help alleviate
> this...

Bugzilla really shouldn't be accepting any mail with empty reverse-path
(MAIL FROM:<>)

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