Erm, bryce-mozilla@nextbus.com has kindly added a feature to bugzilla to make sure that the submitter of a change doesn't get the mail regarding the change. Unfortunately, I *use* that e-mail! Please reinstate it! (It looks like bugzilla is going to need a user options field, as I expect people will want this configurable. Another feature that people want to be able to configure is what appears in the diffs -- this is covered by another bug.)

I'm not trying to argue or anything, but I'd really like to understand -- what do you use the email for?

Terry and I discussed this, and while we expected some complaints initially, we felt it was the correct behavior. I'd have made this a parameter, but eventually, you know, you end up with so many parameters you might as well have just given the guy a C compiler. You can of course get ALL BugZilla mail by putting your email address in "data/mail". I'm curious also what you use this email for. Remember, this is for changes you initiate only.

Here are a few examples of how I use this e-mail: 1. Recently, I was going through many bugs with very loose queries, and every time I found a bug related to alt attributes on images, I added myself as cc. Eventually, I took all these bugs and marked them (by putting "[ALT]" in their description field). Because I was being notified of each change, I had a ready made list of bug numbers in my inbox, so I could figure out which bugs I had to mark just by reading the numbers off. Without this notification, the bugs would have nothing in common (except me being in the cc list and the bug having been modified in the last seven days, but then there are lots of other bugs that fit _that_ criteria!). 2. If I need to quickly look at a change I have recently made, I used to be able to simply swith to my mail client (which is *always* running) and look at the latest entries in my "y-bugreports" folder. Now I have to fire up a web browser... and bugzilla is not compatible with my main web browser (lynx) so this usually involves switching to another computer (one with, say, IE installed), which is a big pain. 3. Since I always read the notification, and since it arrived a few minutes after I had done the change, I was able to spot errors I had made in my comments quite quickly. Now, I won't get this potential verification. 4. I keep all my bugzilla mail in an archive. Originally, this meant that I had a complete history of the changes to a bug. Now, I only have other people's changes, and if I want a complete history I once again have to go to the web. There are many other ways in which I use these e-mails, but these are the most common.

OK, sold. Go to the query page. Go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/changepassword.cgi and set the brand new preference you'll find there. The "excluded" message will now include a link to that page, so that people can easily discover how to get back the old behavior. BTW, bryce, I don't understand your comment about "data/mail".

Cool! Thanks. BTW, you may wish to change the PutHeader line from PutHeader("Preferences", "Change your password and other preferences", ...to PutHeader("Preferences", "Change your password and<br>other preferences", ...since at the moment the header looks silly! :-)

OK, done.

Cool.

Moving to Bugzilla product