Email UI shouldn't allow mixing of command and non-command text
Bug #29572 reported by
Brad Bollenbach
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #5395: Email command rules wrongly match text in the message..
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
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Björn Tillenius |
Bug Description
The Malone email UI allows interspersing of command and non-command text, e.g.,
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affects /products/launchpad
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assignee bradb
This is unnecessary and confusing. Email commands should be required at the beginning of the email, and should not require indenting.
Changed in malone: | |
assignee: | nobody → bjornt |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
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Furthermore:
* There should also be a way to force the email interface to stop
processing commands.
* Illegal commands should be reported as errors rather than
ignored.
* There should be no ambiguity between the start of a message text
and a message which starts with commands. To achieve this and
still support naive users just sending text, it would be necessary
for messages modifying a bug's status (which start with commands)
to be sent to a different address or to have some special mark at
the start.
I have a nice example recently of the problems caused by the ambiguity /launchpad. net/bugs/ 29569 I got a message back saying:
between commands and text. When I filed
https:/
] An error occurred while processing a mail you sent to Malone's email
] interface.
]
] Failing command:
] status and modification information features.)
]
] Error message:
]
] The 'status' argument expects 1 argument(s). It got 4.
Thanks, mailcrypt. sourceforge. net/>
Ian.
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