Launchpad itself

Prefix subject in emails sent by LP

Bug #133720 reported by Evan Klitzke
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Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I am using Gmail to receive my LP email. Gmail has very weak email filtering capabilities compared to most email clients, and AFAICT it is not possible to set up a Gmail filter to filter mail coming in from LP. This is because LP sends emails with a From: header with the actual email address of the person sending the email, and a Reply-to: with an LP email address. In Gmail, it is not possible to filter emails on the Reply-to: header.

Typically mailing lists only do this if they prefix the subject of emails with an identifier in brackets, e.g. [LP]. I propose adding an option to user's LP profiles that gives them the choice of having an [LP] tag prefixed to email subject lines, or else have LP send emails From: an LP email address. I would prefer tagging subject lines, but either of these solutions would work.

Tags: email lp-bugs
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

You can filter mail in GMail based on Reply-To with an expression like "replyto:*@bugs.launchpad.net". That should cover Launchpad bug mail.

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Evan Klitzke (eklitzke2) wrote :

There is no reply-to filter option in Gmail (or at least Google apps, which is the same as Gmail AFAIK). You also cannot filter on arbitrary headers like X-Generated-By. The available filter options are: From, To, Subject, Has the words, Doesn't have.

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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

What James suggested worked for me. I entered the expression in the 'Has the words' field and it worked.

Another option is to set your Launchpad preferred email to something like: <email address hidden> that way you can filter all email coming from Launchpad using the to: field.

Hope that helps.

Changed in malone:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Jari Aalto (jari-aalto) wrote :

The solution does not for for email addresses that do not have +PLUS
addressing capabilities.

Please include [LP] in the subject for proper filtering.

ru_bro (marikstar)
affects: launchpad → ubuntu
Changed in ubuntu:
assignee: nobody → ru_bro (marikstar)
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: ubuntu → launchpad
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: ru_bro (marikstar) → nobody
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