Incorrect response address when using B4

Daniel Gomez da.gomez at samsung.com
Mon Sep 30 14:33:09 UTC 2024


On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:20:57AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:18:39PM GMT, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> > > Was it an automated tool that sent you that message? Normally, email clients
> > > would honour the "Reply-To" field and not use the From: address put in by the
> > > relay.
> > 
> > It was a CI Patchwork tool. Response [1] to my patch was sent from "From:
> > Patchwork <patchwork at emeril.freedesktop.org>".
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/172735727458.1107233.1757281470637305143@2413ebb6fbb6/
> > 
> > I think that tool is ignoring the "Reply-To" field [2] from the B4 message and
> > using the From field.
> > 
> > 	From: Daniel Gomez via B4 Relay <devnull+da.gomez.samsung.com at kernel.org>
> > 	Reply-To: da.gomez at samsung.com
> 
> It's no big deal as long as you got the email response in the end. We expect
> this to happen with a lot of automation, which is why any replies to the relay
> address are auto-discarded.

To clarify, the email response didn't land into my inbox. I realized a response
was sent after checking at lore.kernel.org.

> 
> -K


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