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
thanks
#... (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 .

Tags currently include .

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