This fixes email threading in Mail.app, that doesn't like when a thread
doesn't have stable recipients.
For instance, here is a possible sender-recipient combinations before:
From: A
To: Me
New issue
From: B
To: Me
Reply on new issue
From: A
To: Me
Another reply
Mail.app doesn't see B as a participant to the original email thread,
and decides to break the thread: it will group all messages from A
together, and separately all messages from B.
This commit makes the thread look like this:
From: A
To: gitlab/project
Cc: Me
New issue
From: B
To: gitlab/project
Cc: Me
Reply on new issue
From: A
To: gitlab/project
Cc: Me
Another reply
Mail.app sees a common recipient, and group the thread correctly.
The goal of suych refactoring is to get rid of observers.
Its much easier to test and code when object creation and all other
related actions done in one class instead of splited across observers,
callbacks etc.
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com>
Don't send an email for "mentioned in" notes
Currently, an email is sent every time a mentionable is referenced by an issue, a commit or a merge request: if I comment "This MR is related to #5", the watchers get one email for the comment, and another one stating "Issue #5 was mentioned by issue #13".
This is annoying — but the biggest issue is when pushing an existing branch. Every issue referenced by commit messages in this branch will get a new mention (which is fine), and dozens of emails will be sent for all these new mentions (which is not).
This commit fixes the spam by avoiding to send an email when a new mention is added to an existing mentionable. In most cases the email notification sent by the mentioner is enough.
The 'author_id_of_changes' attribute is not persisted in the database.
As we retrieve the merge request from the DB just before sending the
email, this attribute was always nil.
Also there was no tests for the merge notification code - tests have
been added.
Fix#6605
Cleaner headers in Notification Emails
Make the informations available in the notification email headers (sender, recipient, subject, etc.) more readable and meaningful.
* Remove the email subject prefix
* Don't write the project namespace in email subjects
* Write the issue/merge request title in the notification email subject
* Make the email appear as sent from the action author (the actual email address is still `gitlab@gitlab.com`)
For instance, this is the notification email for a new issue comment before:
> From: gitlab@gitlab.com
> To: myemailaddress@gmail.com
> Subject: GitLab | GitLab HQ / GitLab-Shell | New note for issue #1234
And after :
> From: Nick Brown <gitlab@gitlab.com>
> To: myemailaddress@gmail.com
> Subject: GitLab-Shell | Add local update hook (#1234)
The recipient of the notification can easily get the gist of the message without even opening it — just by looking at how it appears in her inbox. None of the actual email addresses (From, To, Reply-to) changes, just the display name.
Having a consistent subject for all notification emails sent about some resource also allow good email clients to group the discussion by thread (although grouping in Mail.app still needs some work).
Main purpose is move big amount of methods from user, group, project
models and place filtering logic in one place.
It also fixes 500 error on group page for PostgreSQL
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Zaporozhets <dmitriy.zaporozhets@gmail.com>
Currently, an email is sent every time a mentionable is referenced
by an issue, a commit or a merge request: if I comment "This MR is
related to #5", watchers get one email for the comment, and another
one stating "Issue #5 was mentioned by issue #13".
This is annoying — but the biggest issue is when pushing an existing
branch. Every issue referenced by commit messages in this branch will
get a new mention (which is fine), and dozens of emails will be sent
for all these new mentions (which is not).
This commit fixes the spam by avoiding to send an email when a new
mention is created. In most cases the email notification for the
mentioner is enough.
This changes the email "From" field from "gitlab@example.com" to either:
* "John Doe <gitlab@example.com>" if the author of the action is known,
* "GitLab <gitlab@example.com>" otherwise.
Rationale: this allow mails to appear as if they were sent by the
author. It appears in the mailbox more like a real discussion between
the sender and the receiver ("John sent: we should refactor this") and
less like a robot notifying about something.
Emails are used to associate commits with users. The emails
are not verified and don't have to be valid email addresses. They
are assigned on a first come, first serve basis.
Notifications are sent when an email is added.
Marin Jankovski
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Jacob Vosmaer
Pierre de La Morinerie
Alex
Robert Speicher
Jeroen van Baarsen
Jason Hollingsworth