Redmine

Go MAEDA wrote:

In Redmine prior to 4.0, you can see to see all recipients of the notification email in the To field if "Blind carbon copy recipients (bcc)" setting (Setting.bcc_recipients) is false. With this feature, you can know who the notification was sent by the update.

However, this feature is broken in Redmine 4.0. After upgrading to 4.0, only your email address is in the To field and other recipients are not listed there even if Setting.bcc_recipients is false.

I'm not sure that I understand correctly this defect, but the whole idea of #26791 was to send individual notifications which means that each user that receives the notification, will be alone in that email. With the current implementation (which is very desired), it is almost impossible to achieve the behaviour prior to Redmine 4.0.

In my opinion, what we can do here is to drop the setting "Blind carbon copy recipients (bcc)" that doesn't make any sense anymore. I don't see why a user prefers to receive an email as bcc and not to.

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

In my opinion, what we can do here is to drop the setting "Blind carbon copy recipients (bcc)" that doesn't make any sense anymore. I don't see why a user prefers to receive an email as bcc and not to.

+1

With the new individual emails, this setting is not useful anymore. See also #26791#BCC-recipients :)

It is not possible anymore to see from the email recipients who has received the mail. This was only partially possible previously anyway, since we have already send multiple separate emails depending on issue custom field visibility.

If there is a significant request for retaining the information who got the notification (which in turn would also carefully checked for information leaks), the list of user could be added into the mail body now. I personally don't see this as a necessary feature though (and nobody else I'm aware of implements something something like that for their notifications).

Holger Just wrote:

With the new individual emails, this setting is not useful anymore. See also #26791#BCC-recipients :)

Thanks for pointing to your comment, I've attached a patch to (#30820).

Go Maeda, please let us know what it the purpose of this defect.

Go MAEDA wrote:

The option was useful because users who got notifications can see who receives the notification (related to #6813).

Partially true, please see Holger note. If we really need this feature, it should be implemented in Redmine.

Although we lost the feature in 4.0, I think we should accept it as a trade-off for #26791.

Thanks!