Add List-* headers to bug/MP/etc. notifications

Bug #207082 reported by Stuart Bishop
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Gmail (amongst other mail readers) allows you to easily filter mailing list traffic by matching the List-Id: header.

We should consider adding List-Id and other List-* headers to our outgoing bugmail so it can be simply filtered and tagged by mail readers.

Choice of the unique List-Id might be problematic. I personally would want a List-Id: for all bugs I'm directly subscribed to, and a different List-Id: for each upstream that I'm a bug contact for.

 - If I'm directly subscribed to a bug, List-Id: stub.person.launchpad.net
 - If I'm a member of the launchpad-dev team, which is the bug contact for soyuz, List-Id: soyuz.project.launchpad.net

I don't know if my preferences would match other peoples though.

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) wrote :

> I don't know if my preferences would match other peoples though.
This would be a great thing for me.

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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

It'd be great to have these headers for other Launchpad mail too such as code review mail, answers, blueprint change notifications, etc.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: feature
William Grant (wgrant)
summary: - Add List-* headers to bugmail
+ Add List-* headers to bug/MP/etc. notifications
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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote :

A quick win would be to add the RFC2369 List-Unsubscribe header. We already include a relevant subscription management URL in the footer of (most? all?) generated emails. Adding this URL as the List-Unsubscribe header would allow email interfaces like GMail to provide big shiny unsubscribe buttons.

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Mike Pontillo (mpontillo) wrote :

It would be great to have something gmail can filter by in the header. For what it's worth, my current (imperfect) workaround is to use this for the filter search:

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