Re: pr-edit without the email notification

Chad Walstrom <[email protected]> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:11:05 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.gnats.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tom Sandholm <[email protected]>  wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to supress gnats notify-email on a PR change?

It either involves carefully choosing only to edit fields that do not
append data to the audit trail, or to edit the dbconfig file manually
to suppress it during your batch process.

> I'm using pr-edit to "batch" edit a field, and want to supress the
> sending of any email, as I'll be editing about 7000+ PR's, don't
> want to swamp the email server.  Thanks!  - Tom

I would suggest editing the dbconfig and using a temporary /dev/null
or bitbucket email address in the "to-address {" directive of the
"mail-format audit-mail" section.

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