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diff --git a/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-log-mailserver.txt b/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-log-mailserver.txt index 764d25a9e..447a059f7 100644 --- a/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-log-mailserver.txt +++ b/includes/squeeze/common/doc/bug-log-mailserver.txt @@ -1,30 +1,32 @@ +Introduction to the bug system request server + There is a mailserver which can send the bug reports and indices as plain text on request. To use it you send a mail message to request@bugs.debian.org. The - Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject of - the reply. + Subject of the message is ignored, except for generating the Subject + of the reply. The body you send should be a series of commands, one per line. You'll receive a reply which looks like a transcript of your message being - interpreted, with a response to each command. No notifications are sent - to anyone for the commands listed here and the mail isn't logged + interpreted, with a response to each command. No notifications are + sent to anyone for the commands listed here and the mail isn't logged anywhere publicly available. Any text on a line starting with a hash sign # is ignored; the server will stop processing when it finds a line with a control terminator ( - quit, thank you, or two hyphens are common examples). It will also stop - if it encounters too many unrecognised or badly-formatted commands. If - no commands are successfully handled it will send the help text for the - server. + quit, thank you, or two hyphens are common examples). It will also + stop if it encounters too many unrecognised or badly-formatted + commands. If no commands are successfully handled it will send the + help text for the server. Commands available send bugnumber send-detail bugnumber Requests the transcript for the bug report in question. - send-detail sends all of the "boring" messages in the transcript - as well, such as the various auto-acks. + send-detail sends all of the "boring" messages in the + transcript as well, such as the various auto-acks. index [full] index-summary by-package @@ -34,8 +36,8 @@ Commands available number, respectively. index-maint - Requests the index page giving the list of maintainers with bugs - (open and recently-closed) in the tracking system. + Requests the index page giving the list of maintainers with + bugs (open and recently-closed) in the tracking system. index maint maintainer Requests the index pages of bugs in the system for the @@ -55,8 +57,8 @@ Commands available send-unmatched last|-1 send-unmatched old|-2 Requests logs of messages not matched to a particular bug - report, for this week, last week and the week before. (Each week - ends on a Wednesday.) + report, for this week, last week and the week before. (Each + week ends on a Wednesday.) getinfo filename Request a file containing information about package(s) and or @@ -100,18 +102,19 @@ Commands available -- Stops processing at this point of the message. After this you may include any text you like, and it will be ignored. You can - use this to include longer comments than are suitable for #, for - example for the benefit of human readers of your message - (reading it via the tracking system logs or due to a CC or BCC). + use this to include longer comments than are suitable for #, + for example for the benefit of human readers of your message + (reading it via the tracking system logs or due to a CC or + BCC). #... One-line comment. The # must be at the start of the line. debug level - Sets the debugging level to level, which should be a nonnegative - integer. 0 is no debugging; 1 is usually sufficient. The - debugging output appears in the transcript. It is not likely to - be useful to general users of the bug system. + Sets the debugging level to level, which should be a + nonnegative integer. 0 is no debugging; 1 is usually + sufficient. The debugging output appears in the transcript. It + is not likely to be useful to general users of the bug system. There is a reference card for the mailservers, available via the WWW, in bug-mailserver-refcard.txt or by email using the refcard command @@ -119,19 +122,19 @@ Commands available If you wish to manipulate bug reports you should use the control@bugs.debian.org address, which understands a superset of the - commands listed above. This is described in another document, available - on the WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by sending help - to control@bugs. + commands listed above. This is described in another document, + available on the WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, or by + sending help to control@bugs. - In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an HTML - version is available via the bug system main contents page + In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an + HTML version is available via the bug system main contents page http://www.debian.org/Bugs/. - __________________________________________________________________ + _________________________________________________________________ Debian BTS administrators <owner@bugs.debian.org> Debian bug tracking system Copyright © 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997, 2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-1997 Ian Jackson. - __________________________________________________________________ + _________________________________________________________________ |