Mail servers' reference card

Full documentation of the mail servers is available on the WWW, in the files bug-log-mailserver.txt and bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt or by sending the word help to each mailserver.

Synopsis of commands available at request@bugs.debian.org

send bugnumber
send-detail bugnumber
index [full]
index-summary by-package
index-summary by-number
index-maint
index maint maintainer
index-packages
index packages package
send-unmatched [this|0]
send-unmatched last|-1
send-unmatched old|-2
getinfo filename (ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/*)
help
refcard
quit|stop|thank...|--...
#... (comment)
debug level

Synopsis of extra commands available at control@bugs.debian.org

reassign bugnumber package [ version ]
severity bugnumber severity
reopen bugnumber [ originator-address | = | ! ]
found bugnumber [ version ]
notfound bugnumber version
submitter bugnumber originator-address | !
forwarded bugnumber address
notforwarded bugnumber
owner bugnumber address | !
noowner bugnumber
retitle bugnumber new-title
clone bugnumber NewID [ new IDs ... ]
merge bugnumber bugnumber ...
unmerge bugnumber
forcemerge bugnumber bugnumber ...
tag bugnumber [ + | - | = ] tag [ tag ... ]
block bugnumber by bug ...
unblock bugnumber by bug ...
close bugnumber [ fixed-version ] (deprecated — you must separately tell originator why, see Closing bug reports instead)

reopen with = or no originator address leaves the originator as the original submitter; ! sets it to you, the person doing the reopen.

Severities are critical, grave, serious, important, normal, minor, and wishlist.

Tags currently include patch, wontfix, moreinfo, unreproducible, help, pending, fixed, security, upstream, confirmed, fixed-upstream, fixed-in-experimental, d-i, ipv6, lfs, l10n, potato, woody, sarge, sarge-ignore, etch, etch-ignore, sid, and experimental.

Synopsis of bug submission and followup addresses

nnn[ -submit | ]
nnn-maintonly
nnn-quiet
nnn-forwarded
nnn-request
nnn-submitter
nnn-done
nnn-close
nnn-subscribe