updated to better reflect reality in terms of recent changes to bug_email.pl.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/README.Mailif b/contrib/README.Mailif
index c058b0e16..b2420bd28 100644
--- a/contrib/README.Mailif
+++ b/contrib/README.Mailif
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 
 The Bugzilla Mail interface
 ===========================
+
+(UPDATE 03/14/00 to better reflect reality by SML)
+
 The Bugzilla Mail interface allows to submit bugs to Bugzilla by email.
 
 The Mail Interface Contribution consists of three files:
@@ -10,11 +13,6 @@ bugmail_help.html - a user help html site
 
 Installation:
 
-Copy the files
- bugmail_help.html
- bug_email.pl
-to your bugzilla-directory, where all your bugzilla cgi-files reside.
-
 Next is to add a user who receives the bugmails, e. g. bugmail. Create a 
 mail account and a home directory for the user. 
 
@@ -28,6 +26,14 @@ BUGZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/bugzilla
 This defines the Bugzilla directory as the variable BUGZILLA_HOME and passes
 all incoming mail to the script after cd'ing into the bugzilla home.
 
+In some cases, it is necessary to alter the headers of incoming email.  The 
+additional line to procmail :
+
+:0 fhw
+| formail -I "From " -a "From "
+
+fixes many problems.
+
 Customation:
 
 There are some values inside the script which need to be customized for your
@@ -65,4 +71,7 @@ There are two command line switches :
     description of the bug.
 
 
-02/2000 - Klaas Freitag, SuSE GmbH <freitag@suse.de>
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+02/2000 - Klaas Freitag, SuSE GmbH <freitag@suse.de>
+03/2000 - Seth M. Landsman <seth@cs.brandeis.edu>
+ bug_email.pl now lives out of bugzilla/contrib
+ added line about formail
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