[postgis-devel] "SVN on behalf of" considered harmful

[Greg Troxel]

Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 07:55:52PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>> So I think this:
>> 
>>   From: SVN on behalf of Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net>
>> 
>> should be
>> 
>>   From: Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net>
>> 
>> which is how regular mail from strk@ looks.
>> 
>> This is not abuse of From:, because the message really is being
>> generated on behalf of the committing user, and contains comments whose
>> semantics are determined by the commit and commit message.  It would be
>> appropriate to set a Sender: field to indicate this, although the
>> message goes to a mailinglist that will replace the sender field anyway.
>
> Right after replying to a commit notification from Regina I found
> myself agreeing with you as I wasn't really replying to "SVN" there...
>
> So I went ahead and removed the "SVN on behalf of" portion.
>
> And, you're right about the "Sender" header being replaced, as I'm now
> really setting it, but not receiving from the mailing list. Do you
> have other suggestions as to how specify the mail was automatically
> generated ? Any standard header for that ? Or should we just invent
> an X-Generated-By ?

I think you should just not worry about it and be happy.   It is obvious
to all readers how the mail was generated, and there is no actual
problem to solve.
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