Opened 12 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#1516 defect closed worksforme (worksforme)
trac lets people assign and cc bugs to nonexistent users
| Reported by: | jknight | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | website | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Nicola Larosa | Branch: | |
| Author: |
Description
This is a problem because people might they think they've assigned or cc'd a bug to somebody, but effective just sent it to /dev/null.
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
| Owner: | changed from Jean-Paul Calderone to tjs |
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comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by
| Cc: | Nicola Larosa added |
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| Owner: | changed from tjs to Nicola Larosa |
| Type: | enhancement → defect |
This'll have to be forwarded to Trac developers, I'll check whether they're already working on it.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by
Assignment is now done with a selection among existing accounts. The problem remains for the Cc: field.
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
There's no way to actually know what values are valid for the cc field. Any email address is allowed (and we're not going to start doing VRFYs). Plus, even a valid username might not be associated with a valid email address. Restricting the input to valid usernames or strings with '@' in them might be a slight improvement, but there's still lots of opportunity for messages to be lost, so I don't feel like it's worth the effort required.
A good resolution for this would be "fixed"/"wontfix". I'll compromise by making it "worksforme".
comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by
| Owner: | Nicola Larosa deleted |
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Reassigning to tjs as new website maintainer.