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+
+
+<TITLE>How to Mail to bugzilla</TITLE>
+
+<H1>THIS DOESN'T WORK RIGHT NOW.  Coming someday.</H1>
+
+Mailing to "bugzilla" will be piped through a script which examines
+your message, stripping out control lines, and passing the rest of the
+message in as the description of a new bug.  The control lines look like: <P>
+
+<PRE>
+@FIELD-LABEL VALUE
+        LABEL           Legal Values
+        Priority        critical major normal minor trivial
+        Type            BUG RFE
+        Product         Cheddar
+        Platform        PC X-Windows Macintosh All
+        Area            CODE JAVA TEST BUILD UI PERF
+        Version version 2.0b1 2.0b2 2.0b2 2.0b4 2.1a0 2.1a1 2.1b0 2.1b1 2.1b2
+        OS              Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT System 7 System 7.5
+                        AIX BSDI HP-UX IRIX Linux OSF/1 Solaris SunOS other
+        Summary         -anything-
+        URL             -anything-
+        Assign          someone in eng
+
+
+and
+
+@description
+        This tells the bug parse to stop looking for control lines,
+        allowing the bug description to contain lines which start with @
+</PRE>
+
+There are default values for all these fields.  If you don't specify a
+Summary, the subject of the mail message is used. <P>
+
+If you specify an illegal value, the default value is used, the
+bug is assigned to you, and the answerback message will describe
+the error. <P>
+
+After the bug is posted, you will get mail verifying the posting
+and informing you of the bug number if you wish to fix any
+mistakes made by the auto-processor. <P>
+
+EXAMPLE: <P>
+
+
+<PRE>
+    % Mail bugzilla
+    Subject: WinFE crashes with GPF when I pour beer on my keyboard
+    @priority critical
+    @platform PC
+    @assign troy
+
+    After the beer bash I emptied the rest of the keg onto my keyboard
+    and my sharp build of Navigator got a GPF.
+    .
+
+</PRE>