[Python-Dev] syncmail question - how to get submitter as From:?

[Sjoerd Mullender]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> (I'm not sure where precisely to address this.  I'd send it directly to
> Barry but figure that someone else might also know the answer and have
> infinitessimally more time to respond.)
> 
> In my new job I nipped the Python project's syncmail script and added it to
> our CVSROOT.  I then tweaked the loginfo file to run syncmail under the
> proper conditions.  The messages go out just fine, but they come from
> server at servername instead of from the person who executed the checkin
> (e.g. skipm at servername).  Since that's the only indication in the syncmail
> message who performed the checkin I'd like to get that corrected.  It
> appears syncmail just sends out the message as the user it's running as.  Is
> this a cvs server setting or some tweak to the SF version of CVS?  Locally
> we're running cvs 1.11.2, which seems to match what SF runs on shell.sf.net.

Are you using ssh or pserver to talk to the cvs server?
If using ssh, does every user have his/her own account on the server 
that they use?
When using pserver, the cvs server is run under a fixed user id, so 
that's where the mail will appear to come from.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>