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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>
\ No newline at end of file +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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