Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-12 Thread Steffen Hoffmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.09.2013 23:13, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/11/2013 01:10 PM, Steffen Hoffmann wrote: On 11.09.2013 16:30, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I believe the other piece of the puzzle is the ability to update /etc/trac/aliases (or whereever we put the

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-12 Thread Bas van der Vlies
On 12 sep. 2013, at 09:00, Steffen Hoffmann hoff...@web.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.09.2013 23:13, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/11/2013 01:10 PM, Steffen Hoffmann wrote: On 11.09.2013 16:30, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I believe the other piece of the puzzle is

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-11 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Or one could have one email address per ticket, like in Debian (e.g. 123...@bugs.myserver.com). +1. This is the interface people who use such tools come to expect. 3. There is no reply possible from within Trac. This is something OpenERP does very nicely. One can handle the

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2013-09-11 05:51, Bas van der Vlies wrote: I am just back from vacation and read this email2trac thread. Message-id's are not stored in the trac database and if you submit a ticket via the web interface there is no knowledge about the message id. what we want is a flexible reply to

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-11 Thread Steffen Hoffmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.09.2013 16:30, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I believe the other piece of the puzzle is the ability to update /etc/trac/aliases (or whereever we put the aliases file) and run 'newalias' when a new ticket is created. And the question of whether to

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/11/2013 01:10 PM, Steffen Hoffmann wrote: On 11.09.2013 16:30, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I believe the other piece of the puzzle is the ability to update /etc/trac/aliases (or whereever we put the aliases file) and run 'newalias' when a new ticket is created. And the question of whether to

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-05 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu: or forget if it was '#number' or 'number' or what and pick the wrong one... In fact, it is '#number:' - how often did I forget the trailing colon? Message IDs don't work. For instance the version of thunderbird I'm writing this in has reply to

[Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread roger . oberholtzer
We are looking at using email2trac to allow users to add and modify tickets. I am curious what experience people have had with this. Not so much how email2trac works, but how you have managed getting users to format messages correctly. I think we are mainly looking at letting users create

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread Garrett McGrath
We have been running trac + email2trac successfully for a while here. The major issues we've run into are: Mail loops, make sure you double and triple check your black lists because if you don't you'll wind up with enormous trac crippling tickets and DoS

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread Olemis Lang
On 9/4/13, W. Martin Borgert deba...@debian.org wrote: Quoting roger.oberholt...@gmail.com: We are looking at using email2trac to allow users to add and modify tickets. I am curious what experience people have had with this. Not so much how email2trac works, but how you have managed getting

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting roger.oberholt...@gmail.com: We are looking at using email2trac to allow users to add and modify tickets. I am curious what experience people have had with this. Not so much how email2trac works, but how you have managed getting users to format messages correctly. No guidelines, just

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread Steffen Hoffmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.09.2013 17:07, Garrett McGrath wrote: I like it for a basic setup but our ultimate goal is to split ticket handling out to RT and keep trac as our KB system for our labs due to needing some features that trac can't support. -Garrett You're

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread Garrett McGrath
Steffen, Fundamentally we've just out grown trac's ticket handling for what we were using it for. We aren't using trac for project management (in this case) we are using it as a knowledge portal and helpdesk system for our Institutes labs. We've grown since we set this up from around 25

Re: [Trac] email2trac use guidelines

2013-09-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/04/2013 09:52 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: 1. Users tend to forget the ticket number in the subject or they even remove it. This leads to creation of duplicates. There is no easy merging of tickets in Trac, so this means work :~( or forget if it was '#number' or 'number' or