Patchwork gets confused about authorship

[Yann E. MORIN]

Konstantin, All,

On 2021-05-20 13:04 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev spake thusly:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 06:15:51PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > With recently noticed that patchwork gets confused about the authorship
> > of some patches.
> 
> I wouldn't say that it's patchwork that gets confused about the authorship. If
> you examine the headers, it's clear that the list causes this problem by
> rewriting the "From: " header:
> 
>     From: "Chan, Donald via buildroot" <buildroot at busybox.net>

Ouch, I indeed did not pay attention to the email part, only the
human-readable name...

> The original From: header is completely obliterated, though I expect it's the
> list that inserts the following:
> 
>     Reply-To: "Chan, Donald" <hoiho at lab126.com>
> 
> There's not even an X-Original-From: or anything like that, which would help
> avoid this problem, since Patchwork will recognize this situation and
> correctly substitute the list From with the original From.

OK, so if we could get the list to set X-Original-From, that would
solve the issue.

> This is because when patchwork received an email with the address
> "buildroot at busybox.net" it was sent by Eugen.Hristev -- so the
> buildroot at busybox.net account in patchwork has that name associated with it
> and will put that into all patches.
> 
> Again, not really the problem of patchwork, but the side-effect of how the
> list operates.
> 
> > Any idea? How can we avoid that?
> 
> You should fix the list to not substitute the From: header with the list
> address.

Ah, but this is required when the sender is from a domain with DMARC
with a Reject or Quarantine policy, and the recipient server checks that
setting.

Thanks for the feedback, we'll see how to fix the mailing list (if at
all possible).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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