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I don't think I want an anonymous user to be able to create bugs. Maybe what I'm after is an automatic user creation based on the given email address, but the user won't be able to log in before verifying the email. If a user already exists for the given email address, that bug also belongs to that existing user even though no password was asked (but it could mention that it was created anonymously and log the IP).

But that's how most othe rregstration systems work too. All bugzilla/mailman etc. typically want is to verify the autheticity of the given email address.

But why? If all you're doing is just adding a new bug, what's the point of verifying the email address? It's just annoying to the user.

Especially if someone like myself is already registered to the mailing list, I don't feel the need to go and register into a bugtracking system and have my email verified yet again.

I just made a simple mockup of what I'd like the "Enter new bug" page to be like: http://dovecot.org/tmp/bug.html

Nice and simple is good. I'd include a couple of other fields to make it easy to get useful info, like dovecot version and OS. But I'd really prefer to just email reports in to the list.

The log in page would then allow logging in with email/password, or allow "registering" the user by sending a new password to the email.

Perhaps it can just be integrated with the maillist login page?

Kenny Dail <kend@amigo.net>