Ubuntu
unattended-upgrades package

Make subject of status mail configurable

Bug #245417 reported by Thomas Ribbrock
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

unattended-upgrades has a nice feature which sends a status report via mail to a configurable address. That's great if you have several workstations running Ubuntu and want to keep track of things. However, the subject of these mails is fixed, making it difficult to determine which workstation has sent the mail. Hence my suggestion: If you get a chance, please make the subject configurable - that way, each workstation can use a unique subject (e.g. with the hostname in it), making it a lot easier to scan through a list of status messages.

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I added code to bzr that adds the hostname into the summary of each mail. Is this sufficient?

Changed in unattended-upgrades:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unattended-upgrades - 0.36

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unattended-upgrades (0.36) jaunty; urgency=low

  * make cache calculations quicker (thanks to Ben Hutchings,
    closes #475610)
  * add hostname in mail header, thanks to Arthur de Jong
    (closes: #502171, LP: #245417)
  * better email summary of the performed actions
    (closes: #502351)
  * be more robust against failures to read the deb (LP: #227448)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:31:42 +0100

Changed in unattended-upgrades:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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