Re: Gerrit emails

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Thursday, October 17 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:52:11 -0400
>> 
>> I talked to OSCI and they will provide us a mailbox that we can use for
>> gerrit.  I'm just waiting for them to set it up and give me the
>> password.  Once we have it, I will modify our configuration file to use
>> this mailbox, and gerrit says that if receivemail is enabled, the
>> Reply-To address is set to the same value as the "From" field.
>
> Thanks for taking care of this.  But I'm not sure I understand the
> impact of that mailbox the OSCI people will give us -- can you
> elaborate?  IOW, the email will now say Reply-To gerrit itself, and
> how will the email workflow work from there?

The idea is that you will send a comment via email to gerrit itself,
which will then process the email and generate notifications for the
interested parties.  This is good because we make sure that all
discussions are logged in gerrit, and we will keep receiving emails
normally.

Thanks,

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