[Reportbug-maint] Bug#640249: Bug#640249: reportbug ignores e-mail settings

[Sandro Tosi]

I'm considering reverting the change you mentioned, but you have to be
more convincing than before.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 20:58, Kevin Locke <kevin at kevinlocke.name> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 6.2.1
> Followup-For: Bug #640249
>
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> I believe this is a regression introduced by the fix to bug #614880,
> which reintroduced bug #270333.  Reportbug is no longer setting the
> envelope from address when sending emails.  Note that in the response
> that was pasted I see no indication of the envelope from address, only
> the message From header.
>
> I contend that it is not reasonable to expect users to have local MTAs
> configured to canonicalize/masquerade local user account names to public
> addresses

coudl you please elaborate why it's not reasonable?

> and that there are legitimate cases where users will want to
> report bugs with addresses different than whatever their default
> envelope sender is.

examples?

> Also that the From header should match the envelope
> sender, where possible.

references to back up this assertion?

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