bug_email.pl and bugzilla_append_email.pl

[Joel Peshkin]

Gervase Markham wrote:

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> Joel Peshkin wrote:
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>> Gervase Markham wrote:
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>>> You could make this address only work for people who have accounts, 
>>> perhaps.
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>> For most sites, that would be a first step.  The next interesting 
>> question is how to prevent it from being spoofed.  
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> I was only suggesting that as an access control mechanism for emailing 
> the bug reporter, not for Bugzilla email in general. So I don't think 
> spoofing is an issue - you could just look up the bug and get the 
> email address from there if necessary.
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The problem, at least for my users, is that the users who want to mail 
bugs in and mail-in updates are trying to operate when they have no live 
network connection (generally our sales and field app engineers).  
Whatever they need to act needs to be on their notebooks before they 
start to compose an email.