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--- linear_email:start [2026/09/20 14:30 UTC] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ linear_email:start [2026/09/21 12:30 UTC] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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   * **May assign a new issue** to the Linear member whose email address matches the sender, so mail from a colleague arrives already assigned to them. Anything assigned this way can be reassigned normally in Linear afterwards.
-The application's name is what appears as the **author** on every issue and comment it creates, so
+Everything the service produces is identifiable in the workspace, but the two kinds are labelled
-anything it has produced is identifiable in the workspace.
+differently:
+  * An **issue** it creates is authored by the application, so its name is what appears.
+  * A **comment** it posts is attributed to the person whose message it came from, shown as //their name and address// followed by //via// the application's name. Linear does not treat that person as the comment's account holder --- it is a label, and they need no Linear account for it.
+A comment is only attributed this way when the sender was authenticated. On an issue address, where
+authentication is recorded but not required, a message the service could not verify is attributed
+to the application instead --- so a name on a comment is one the service proved, never one the
+message merely claimed.
 You can see and revoke it under **Settings → API → OAuth applications** in Linear. Revoking it stops