[Python-Dev] Failed issue tracker submission

[R. David Murray]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:01:52 +0100, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:47:33 +0100
> martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
> > 
> > Zitat von Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> > 
> > > But python-dev seems a poor place to spam with those errors.
> > 
> > It's certainly not deliberate that they are sent. However, there
> > are too few people interested in working on fixing that so that
> > it remains unfixed. Even finding out why they are sent to python-dev
> > is tricky.
> 
> I think it's because I configured the dummy "python-dev" user that way:
> http://bugs.python.org/user13902

I'm pretty sure it's because python-dev is the 'from' address
used when the messages are sent...and the configuration of
that user is what allows them to be accepted.

I suggest changing the from address and the account configuration
to tracker-discuss at python.org instead.

--David