Info on setting up a local spool handling mail gateway.

Author: Richard Jones

INSTALL.txt

@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ any admin people.
 
 Mail
 ----
+
+Setup 1: As a mail alias pipe process
+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Set up a mail alias called "issue_tracker" as:
   "|/usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw <instance_home>"
 
@@ -94,6 +97,16 @@ To test the mail gateway on unix systems, try:
   echo test |mail -s '[issue] test' [email protected]
 
 
+Setup 2: As a regular cron job
+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
+Set the roundup-mailgw up to run every 10 minutes or so. For example:
+10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw <instance_home> <mail_spool_file>
+
+Where the mail_spool_file argument is the location of the roundup
+submission user's mail spool. On most systems, the spool for a user
+"issue_tracker" will be "/var/mail/issue_tracker".
+
+
 
 Web Interface
 -------------

doc/index.html

@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ <h2><a name="startcmd">Command Line Tool</a></h2>
 </ol>
 
 <h2><a name="startweb">E-Mail Interface</a></h2>
+
+<h3>Setup 1: As a mail alias pipe process</h3>
 Set up a mail alias called "issue_tracker" as:
 <blockquote>
     <tt>|/usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw
@@ -179,6 +181,17 @@ <h2><a name="startweb">E-Mail Interface</a></h2>
 </blockquote>
 
 
+<h3>Setup 2: As a regular cron job</h3>
+
+Set the roundup-mailgw up to run every 10 minutes or so. For example:
+<blockquote>
+ <tt>10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw &lt;instance_home&gt; &lt;mail_spool_file&gt;</tt>
+</blockquote>
+
+Where the mail_spool_file argument is the location of the roundup
+submission user's mail spool. On most systems, the spool for a user
+"issue_tracker" will be "/var/mail/issue_tracker".
+
 
 <h2><a name="startweb">Web Interface</a></h2>
 This software will work through apache or stand-alone.
@@ -1170,7 +1183,7 @@ <h1><a name="ack">Acknowledgements</a></h1>
 
 <p>&nbsp;</p>
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 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 
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