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<ul>
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<li><a href="#instance">The Instance</a>
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<li><a href="#startcmd">Command Line Tool</a>
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<li><a href="#startweb">E-Mail Interface</a>
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<li><a href="#startmail">E-Mail Interface</a>
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<li><a href="#startweb">Web Interface</a>
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<li><a href="#users">Users and Access Control</a> (Users and permissions, Adding users)
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<li><a href="#issues">Issues</a>
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<br>roundup's internal use (problems, etc)
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<h2><a name="startweb">E-Mail Interface</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="startmail">E-Mail Interface</a></h2>
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<h3>Setup 1: As a mail alias pipe process</h3>
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Set up a mail alias called "issue_tracker" as (include the quote marks):
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<h3>Setup 2: As a regular cron job</h3>
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<h3>Setup 2: As a regular cron job using a mailbox source</h3>
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Set the roundup-mailgw up to run every 10 minutes or so. For example:
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<tt>10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw &lt;instance_home&gt; &lt;mail_spool_file&gt;</tt>
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<tt>10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw &lt;instance_home&gt; mailbox &lt;mail_spool_file&gt;</tt>
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Where the mail_spool_file argument is the location of the roundup
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submission user's mail spool. On most systems, the spool for a user
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"issue_tracker" will be "/var/mail/issue_tracker".
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<h3>Setup 3: As a regular cron job using a POP source</h3>
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To retrieve from a POP mailbox, use a similar cron entry to the mailbox
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one:
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<tt>10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/roundup-mailgw &lt;instance_home&gt; pop &lt;pop_spec&gt;</tt>
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where pop_spec is "username:password@server" that specifies the roundup
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submission user's POP account name, password and server.
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<h2><a name="startweb">Web Interface</a></h2>
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This software will work through apache or stand-alone.
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<strong>Stand-alone:</strong>
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<li>Edit roundup-server at the top - ROUNDUP_INSTANCE_HOMES needs to know
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about your instance. *** command-line option
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about your instance. You may also specify the values for
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ROUNDUP_INSTANCE_HOMES on the command-line using "name=home" pairs.
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<li><tt>roundup-server [hostname port]</tt> (hostname may be "")
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<li>Load up the page <tt>/&lt;instance name&gt;/index</tt> where
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*** command-line option
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<strong>Apache:</strong>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
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