[josm-dev] email addresses in trac

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, colliar wrote:

>>> It is also not really obvious that you can use your user-name instead of
>>> email-address and if you are logged it does not offer the username but your
>>> email-address.
>>>
>>> Myself did that mistake, and using that part shown with google easily presents
>>> you my whole address
>>
>> You don't need to enter CC at all. You automatically get mails for all
>> tickets you either created or modified.
>
> You do not get this information anywhere, (Yes, you can maybe read it somewhere
> in trac's documentary). But for a normal user, its is not that easy, and still,
> if I only want to cc: and I am logged in, I am only offered my email-address and
> not my username. I always have to log out and then cc: to and login again.

I don't understand your problem here. The cc is a freetext field. You can 
enter anything there. You get a mail when it is possible to make an email 
from the text. So trac tries to check if the text is a username or an 
email and then sends the status mail.

Ciao
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