[rt-users] RT Mail command interface

[Jesse]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:45:40AM +0200, Tobias Brox wrote:
> > 1) The question I was able to figure out was a bug in 
> > rt/lib/ui/mail/manipulate.pm in the "SET due" handler. The function 
> > call
> > 
> >    ($trans, $message)=
> >        &rt::change_due_date($serial_no, $date_due, $current_user);
> > 
> > is wrong. The second argument should be "$due_date", not "$date_due". 
> 
> It's some sort of a problem that there are rather few that uses the
> mailgate in an advanced way, as well as the duedate aren't used by that
> many either, so errors like this goes undetected for a long time.  I fear
> the same will be an issue with 2.0.
 
I'm actually less concerned about problems like this in RT2. perl -w
and use strict would have caught these issues. RT1.x's core code 
is a bit too old to adopt such things, but the rewrite has been using them from the start.
 

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