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receiving unwanted bug discussions via team

Asked by Philipp Kaluza

I regularly receive launchpad bug mails about samba. They come with the following disclaimer:

| You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
| Directory Services, which is a bug contact for samba in ubuntu.

While I want to continue to be a part of the Directory team, I have no interest AT ALL in various strange samba bugs, however i guess at least some people in the team are. I should be able to opt-out of these automatic mails, while continuing ma team membership. How do I do that ?

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Best Christian Reis (kiko) said : 		#1

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:20:29AM -0000, philipp wrote:
> I regularly receive launchpad bug mails about samba. They come with the following disclaimer:
>
> | You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> | Directory Services, which is a bug contact for samba in ubuntu.

Heh, that's not a disclaimer. It's information. :-)

Use the X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale and the X-Launchpad-Bug headers to
filter this bugmail to /dev/null in your mail client.

    https://help.launchpad.net/LaunchpadMessageRationale
    https://help.launchpad.net/UsingMaloneEmail

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Philipp Kaluza (pixelpapst) said : 		#2

Ok, I had hoped for a server-side opt-out to reduce traffic, but this works just as well.
Thank you very much Christian.

For future reference, here's how I did the filtering in my IMAP server with a sieve script:
  ### unwanted launchpad mail
  if header :is "X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale" "Bug Contact (samba in ubuntu) @ubuntu-directory" {
      discard;
      stop;
  }

The X-Launchpad-Bug header would allow for even smaller granularity (or substring matching with :contains instead of :is) but i'm quite happy to throw all samba-related mail away, if I didn't subscribe to the bug personally.

If you just want to move the message to e.g. your Trash folder, do a
  require ["fileinto", "imapflags"];

at the beginning of the file, and then later:
  ### unwanted launchpad mail
  if header :is "X-Launchpad-Message-Rationale" "Bug Contact (samba in ubuntu) @ubuntu-directory" {
      setflag "\\Seen";
      fileinto "INBOX.Trash";
      stop;
  }

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Christian Reis (kiko) said : 		#3

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:34:15PM -0000, Philipp Kaluza wrote:
> Question #10130 on Launchpad changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/10130
>
> Status: Answered => Solved
>
> Philipp Kaluza confirmed that the question is solved:
> Ok, I had hoped for a server-side opt-out to reduce traffic, but this
> works just as well.
> Thank you very much Christian.

You're welcome. I should point out that another way to avoid server
traffic is to reorganize the samba team set as bug contact. They could,
for instance, create a more specific group to serve as bug contact, and
have a larger group to demonstrate affiliation.

I personally think that header filtering is not a bad idea -- and with
the amount of spam we all get, it's probably not going to cause a big
dent in your MRTG graphs <wink>.
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