From 7799c678459baacf3e400d126c0fad6af566c89a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "seth%cs.brandeis.edu" <> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:43:48 +0000 Subject: updated to better reflect reality in terms of recent changes to bug_email.pl. --- contrib/README.Mailif | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'contrib/README.Mailif') 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 \ No newline at end of file +02/2000 - Klaas Freitag, SuSE GmbH +03/2000 - Seth M. Landsman + bug_email.pl now lives out of bugzilla/contrib + added line about formail \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b