Re: [jira] Created: (INFRA-3403) procmail e-mail processing (JIRA mails and gmail threads issue).

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Dawid Weiss (JIRA) wrote on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 16:17:46 -0500:
> LONG(ISH) INTRODUCTION
> 
> Hi. There's been an exchange of e-mails on the Lucene mailing list
> (started by me) about the issue gmail has with grouping (creating
> threads) out of JIRA notification e-mails. Apparently, gmail does not
> make use of standard e-mail headers and groups by e-mail subject ONLY

Then make gmail respect standards?  They're about 30 years old by now.

> PROBLEM/QUESTION
> 
> Is it possible/ allowed for apache committers (those having
> @apache.org e-mails) to use procmail on people.apache.org? What is the
> "correct" way of setting up a procmail filter together with the
> existing MTA (and .forward rule, I assume)?
> 

It's currently possible to use .qmail/.forward files on people.a.o, but
that's deprecated and will be removed by the end of the year.  The plan
is to only allow specifying a forwarding address(es).