Comment 3 for bug 5395

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Jari Aalto (jari-aalto) wrote : Re: Email commands should be forced to appear at the beginning of an email

Requiring that commands appear in one place, the easiest for automated machine handling; at the beginning, is welcomed.

I would also like to suggest that the experience of Debian BTS is applied. There should be a special keyword to *end* commands. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#comment "<following words: quit ...> On a line by itself, in any case, possibly followed by whitespace, tells the control server to stop processing the message; the remainder of the message can include explanations, signatures or anything else, none of it will be detected by the control server."

An email example:

    From:
    Subject:

    <COMMAND>
    <COMMAND>
    quit
    stop
    thank
    thanks
    thankyou
    thank you
    --

    <The rest of the bug report body; normal text>