300792 - Option to identify responsible changer in email header

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126151

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, enhancement)

Description

[Bevan Bennett]

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We use bugzilla internally and many people get swamped with bug change
notifications (ones that they want to see). 

We wanted to be able to add something to the "From:" header so that the
recipient can easily tell whom was responsible for generating that particular
notification (knowing who spawned the message can often inform you of whether
it's an important comment or not, without having to open up the message or go to
bugzilla).

This turned out to be a fairly easy thing to accomplish, so I offer the changes
back as a potential enhancement.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create or change a bug
2. look at the generated email
3. "From: Bugzilla <bugzilla-daemon>"
Actual Results:  
No Bugzilla header indicates what user was responsible for the email.

Expected Results:  
"From: Bugzilla from Bevan Bennett <bugzilla-daemon>" [if realname set]
"From: Bugzilla from [e-mail] <bugzilla-daemon>" [if realname not set]

The newchanged email profile can now make use of the %fromwho% variable which
contains " from realname" if a realname exists, " from email address" if there
is no real name, or is empty if a value could not be determined.
I then change the newchanged profile to start with "From: Bugzilla%fromwho%
<bugzilla-daemon>", in order to take advantage of the new feature.

Comment 1

[Bevan Bennett]

Attachment: Adds %fromwho% template variable (vs 2.18.3)

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126151 ***