Re: Urgent bugzilla mainteinance needed

[Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Natalie Protasevich wrote:
>> On 9/23/07, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>>> 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:<>)
Updated to handle this case.
>>
>> Ah, then should be easy fix then. I don't have access to the system
>> though, will have to helplessly wait until one of the guys picks up...
>> :(
>
> Sorry, can't fix this - I don't have direct access to the system,
> and I don't think the others will be back until Monday ;-(
>
> M.
It should be working now.  Thanks to David Ames for handling the mailer
part.  I cleaned the spam(1353 msgs) out of the bug.

Jon