Commit 7799c678 authored by seth%cs.brandeis.edu's avatar seth%cs.brandeis.edu

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

parent dbbe021b
The Bugzilla Mail interface
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(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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