To use it you send a mail message to
request\@$gEmailDomain
.
The 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 most commands; however, the messages are logged and made available in the WWW pages.
Any text on a line starting with a hash sign #
is
ignored; the server will stop processing when it finds a line starting
with quit
, stop
, thank
or two
hyphens (to avoid parsing a signature). 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.
send
bugnumber
send-detail
bugnumber
send-detail
sends all of the `boring' messages in the
transcript, such as the various auto-acks (you should usually use
send
as well, as the interesting messages are not sent by
send-detail
).
index
[full
]
index-summary by-package
index-summary by-number
index-maint
index maint
maintainer
index-packages
index packages
package
send-unmatched
[this
|0
]
send-unmatched
last
|-1
send-unmatched
old
|-2
getinfo
filename
maintainers
pseudo-packages.description
pseudo-packages.maintainers
refcards
help
quit
stop
thank
...
--
...
#
, 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
).
#
...
#
must be at the start of the
line.
debug
level
bug-mailserver-refcard.txt
or by email using the
refcard
command (see above).
If you wish to manipulate $gBug reports you should use the
control\@gEmailDomain
address, which understands a
superset of the commands listed
above. This is described in another document, available on the
WWW, in the file bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt
, or by
sending help
to control\@$gEmailDomain
.
In case you are reading this as a plain text file or via email: an
HTML version is available via the $gBug system main contents page
http://$gWebDomain/
.