Issue 63: E-mail notifications from Gerrit should come from a generic e-mail address
Status:  WontFix
Owner:
Closed:  Sep 2009
Reported by code-rev...@gtempaccount.com, Sep 24, 2009
Reported by Ravi Yenduri <yenduri@pv.com> on Sat Feb 07 17:19:08 PST 2009
Source: JIRA GERRIT-63
Affected Version: 2.0

When I add projects to the list of "Watched Projects" in
http://review.source.android.com/Gerrit#settings, e-mail notifications
originate from the original author. Instead, it would be nice if they come
from something like donotreply@androidgerrit.com or something like that.

Reason 1: If I just add myself as a watcher for all the projects, I think I
can lay hands on hundreds of e-mail addresses within no time.

Reason 2: I can set up a filter to mark all android review e-mail. :-)
Sep 24, 2009
#1 code-rev...@gtempaccount.com
Comment by Shawn Pearce <sop@google.com> on Sun Feb 08 10:47:35 PST 2009

Reason 1:

If you wanted to gather email addresses, just watch the commit logs in Git.
Those logs have email addresses from people, and Gerrit requires that the
committer email address be a "reasonably valid" email address in order to
upload the change in the first place.  Masking users email addresses with some
generic Gerrit server address won't change anything.

By sending messages from the uploader, it is easier to reply to the uploader,
and to everyone else who received the same notification, by simply pushing
"Reply-To-All" in your email client.

So I think we want to keep it as sent from the uploader.

Reason 2:

Check the List-Id header.  There's plenty of header data embedded in the
message headers to filter review email on, or to implement automated traps.
E.g. you could automatically download every new change with a procmail rule so
it was always available locally.
Sep 24, 2009
#2 code-rev...@gtempaccount.com
Update by Shawn Pearce <sop@google.com> on Sun Feb 08 10:47:35 PST 2009
Status: WontFix
Sep 24, 2009
#3 code-rev...@gtempaccount.com
Comment by Ravi Yenduri <yenduri@pv.com> on Tue Feb 10 05:04:47 PST 2009

Thanks Shawn.