From cook@sightpath.com

This is actually about a bug in perlbug, not in perl.

I recently used perlbug to file a bug report. I got an automated response
that said "Your e-mail has been received by the Perl Bug Squashing Team", etc.

The email header of that automated response had a Message-ID field that was
identical to that of my the email message that contained my bug report.
(Consequently, one of the two messages was suppressed by my mail user agent.)

Also, the From field of the automated response said the message came from me
(which it did not).

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by root at Mon Aug 30 23:08:56 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2 09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/u/cook
    LANG=en_US
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_ALL=en_US
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/local/cook/sonoma/bin:/u/cook/bin:/u/cook/site/linux/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Ronald J Kimball wrote​:

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03​:02​:50PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote​:

I just ran perlbug -ok and this showed up in my logs​:

Mar 21 15​:00​:46 audit_mail[1271]​: New mail from Tom Christiansen <tchrist@​jhereg.perl.com>
Mar 21 15​:00​:46 audit_mail[1271]​: deposit into lists
Mar 21 15​:00​:59 audit_mail[17477]​: New mail from Tom Christiansen <tchrist@​jhereg.perl.com>
Mar 21 15​:00​:59 audit_mail[17477]​: duplicate message id <200003212200.PAA24595@​jhereg.perl.com> discarded

The first is the confirmation ticket number. The second, well, I don't
know. I suppose it might be the report. But I didn't get it, because
I drop duplicate message ids. Are we sending out two separate
messages -- both the bug report *and* its confirmation -- under
the same message id!?

Yes, people have been complaining about this problem for some time. I hope
something is being done to fix it.

http​://bugs.perl.org/pbdb.cgi?req=tidmids&tidmids=20000128.002

Ronald

Yup, Mike Guy sent a couple of mails on this subject too, I don't think
I realised it was dropping the actual reports from getting through.

This may sound daft, but I've been avoiding enabling the revised email
side of things, while everyone was/is in the middle of the latest
release. OK, I'll go do it now.

Ciao
Richard Foley

richard@​rfi.net
'Ciao' - shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen'

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

In message <13062.953676170@​chthon>,
  Tom Christiansen writes​:

: The first is the confirmation ticket number. The second, well, I
don't
: know. I suppose it might be the report. But I didn't get it, because
: I drop duplicate message ids. Are we sending out two separate
: messages -- both the bug report *and* its confirmation -- under
: the same message id!?

Ohhhh.. maybe that's why I'm not seeing my own reports either.

Greg
I see several for you in the db. Even if you are not getting the mail,
the 'mail is getting through!'

http​://bugs.perl.org/admin/pbdb.cgi?req=tid&tid=20000321.010

http​://bugs.perl.org/admin/pbdb.cgi?req=tid&tid=20000316.017

etc.

Ciao
Richard Foley

richard@​rfi.net
'Ciao' - shorter than 'Aufwiedersehen'