On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 4:40:47 PM UTC-5, matt.caron wrote: > > On 02/04/2015 04:16 PM, Sri Ram Kannan wrote: > > Hi Mathew, > > > > Thanks for replying back. I would look into your notes to install the > > mail server. > > > > Before that, can you say how to test Email2Trac and Mail2Trac plugins > > locally ? I have installed the Trac in my local machine successfully. I > > don't have the idea of how to proceed to test the plugins. > > I'll answer each point individually and try to help. > > I'm also not familiar with Mail2Trac. I only use email2trac and achieve > the behavior which I think you're trying to get working. > > Looking at http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/MailToTracPlugin, it seems that > MailToTrac and Email2Trac may provide the same functions, so you would > want to pick one, and not do both. > > > To be precise where I'm struggling to continue is: > > 1. Able to create a ticket and the ticket is sent to Gmail successfully. > > It sounds like this is working. > > > 2. No clue on where the email generated is stored in the local machine. > > It isn't. Email is only stored on the local machine until the remote > machine (Google's servers) accept it for delivery. Then it is deleted. > > > 3. The main functionality to check is to modify the ticket and send to > > Email2Trac and Mail2Trac plugin so that the modification must be added > > as a comment in the ticket page. > > I presume you mean that you want to reply to the email and have it get > added to the ticket. For that, you need a local mailserver that accepts > email destined for the original from address. > > So, if you send email to [email protected] <javascript:>, and it's from > [email protected] <javascript:>, you need to be able to hit reply and > the email goes > to [email protected] <javascript:>, which means that you need to set > up a mailserver > @ yourdomain.com which will accept email and route it to the email2trac > script. >
Can you explain this point much in detail on how to achieve it ? Do I need to install mail server as you mentioned in the earlier mail using your notes ? Exim ? > > > 4. How to receive the mail locally in the machine to see rather than > > sending to the gmail. > > Once your mailserver is working, you'd want to change the email address > associated with that user in the admin panel, so instead of trying to > send it to [email protected] <javascript:>, you want it to go to > [email protected] <javascript:>. You may also want to change the > trac config > to use the local mail server. Then you can check that email account > instead of the IMAP account and get email there. > And please explain to how to do change the trac config to use the local mail server. I appreciate your immediate response and you gave a clear idea about the issue now. Thanks a ton! > > > I kindly request you to explain if possible step - by - step so that I > > can understand easily. I'm working in ubuntu 14.0.4 and see a good > > article for email2trac on windows but not for ubuntu. > > IIRC, Installation is standard Unix configure/make/make install: > > https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/email2trac/wiki/Email2tracInstallation > > You could follow the Debian Package instructions, but I believe I just > followed "No package manager". > > And this covers the config: > > https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/email2trac/wiki/Email2tracConfiguration > > And the stuff I posted earlier covers adding it to your exim. > > Unfortunately, I can't be more specific than this, because the specifics > are determined by your site's individual requirements. > > -- > Matthew Caron, Software Build Engineer > Red Lion Controls | www.redlion.net > +1 (518) 877-5173 x138 office > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
