287356 - Highlighting specific bugmail to specific people

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, enhancement)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

It would be interesting if there was a way to identify specific people that a
bug mail should be sent to and highlighted.

For example, if someone adds a comment to a bug in which they ask me a question,
I'd like the relevant bugmail to have "***" in the subject line, clearly
indicating that this is something I am supposed to read.

I currently get a _lot_ of bugmail, and so it is easy to miss comments
specifically aimed at me.

This could work either by having a field after the "additional comments" box
where you could type e-mail addresses, or maybe by having a special syntax like
/^(\w+)[,:] /m which, if matched, would highlight the mail for whoever matched
the $1 string. i.e. if someone started a line of a comment with "Ian: " then it
would highlight the mail for anyone on the CC list who has "ian" in their name
or e-mail address.

Comment 1

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

I think the Needinfo extension covers this use case neatly.