97761 - Need email preference filtering category for flags

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, enhancement, P2)

Description

[[e-mail]]

Not only did I get sent an email for editing an attachment although my global
email pref is set to not email me for my own edits, there doesn't appear to be a
way to filter attachment edit email.

Comment 1

[Jacob Steenhagen]

Bug 97764 deals with getting the e-mail even though your prefs say you don't
want mail on your own changes.

Morphing this bug to cover the second half, filtering the attachment e-mail.  I
guess there's two possabilities:
 1. Add a category for the attachment tracking stuff (will dep. on bug 73665)
 2. Expand the existing 'New Attachments' to included changes.

Comment 2

[David D. Kilzer (ddk)]

Bug 98078 may be a duplicate.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

no patch, not a blocker, moving to 2.18

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Changing default owner of Email Notifications component to JayPee, a.k.a.
J. Paul Reed ([e-mail]).  Jake will be offline for a few months.

Comment 5

[Joel Peshkin]

Unloved bugs targetted for 2.18 but untouched since 9-15-2003 are being
retargeted to 2.20
If you plan to act on one immediately, go ahead and pull it back to 2.18.

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Isn't this already handled now, in 2.18 or 2.19? Travis, you touched this code
recently, do you know?

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Well the flags can't or don't yet provide the effect I need, which is never to
email me when I change a bug; b.m.o still notifies me for my own flag changes.

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

In fact, bugzilla tells me that my request was cancelled when in fact someone
changed my (admittedly inadvertent) - to a ? :-(

Comment 9

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

As preed is no longer actively working on Bugzilla (from what I know), I somehow
doubt that this bug will make it in for 2.20. :-) If I'm wrong, feel free to
take it back and re-target it. :-)

Comment 10

[Frédéric Buclin]

The reason is that Flag.pm only checks whether you want to get a notification when a request made by you changes, not whether you globally not want to get notifications when changes are made by you. I don't see this as a major issue, but we could still take it for 2.22, even if it's more an enhancement than a bug.

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

There has been some discussion in mozilla.governance on the need for additional UI to control flag-related email. My proposal there was:

1) An additional row of email prefs checkboxes:
"Flag status changes"

2) Another global option:
[ ] "Email me when someone sets a flag on an attachment I uploaded"

These seem to cover most of the use cases (although nothing is ever perfect).

Gerv