wiki:Email2tracInstallation

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Installation

First get the latest stable source of the package from:

Contains

The email2trac package contains the following utilities:

email2trac::

Converts an email to ticket. Reads a config file email2trac.conf

run_email2trac::

Suid program that changes the MTA-user to the TRAC-user so that we can save attachments

delete_spam::

A small program that deletes the SPAM tickets from the database

email2trac.conf::

Configuration file to set the behavior for email2trac.

Build process

Warning Icon Image Pay attention to the MTA_USER and TRAC_USER, they are not something you can ignore!

Unpack the tarball. There are severasl methods to build the package.

No package manager

The configure script build default is /usr/local

./configure (see --help)
    default values for:
       prefix=/usr/local        --> --prefix=<path>
       exec_prefix=$prefix/bin  --> --exec_prefix=<path>
       sysconfdir=$prefix/etc   --> --sysconfdir=<path>
       MTA_USER=nobody          --> --with-mta_user=<name>
       TRAC_USER=www-data       --> --with-trac_user=<name>
make
make install

If you want the python scripts to be included in the buildprocess add --enable-python

Debian package

debian/rules binary
dpkg -i ../email2trac_<version>.deb
NOTE:  It uses the defaults settings for MTA_USER and TRAC_USERS as mentioned above

RPM package

cp email2trac.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
rpmbuild -ba email2trac.spec
  • RPM package instructions seem incomplete. The above didn't work for me, I had to do the following (as root or using sudo). There may be an alternative way of setting TRAC_USER and MTA_USER than the one below but I couldn't find it. It's a shame it doesn't pull it from the config file. - Tolan Blundell slight_ at hotmail dot com.
    tar zxvf email2trac.tar.gz
    rm email2trac.tar.gz
    // Edit lines 37 and 51 of configure.in to alter the TRAC_USER and MTA_USER variables.
    mv  email2trac-0.13  email2trac-0.13.0
    tar zcvf email2trac.tar.gz  email2trac-0.13.0
    cp -R email2trac-0.13.0/ /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
    cp -R email2trac.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
    cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
    rpmbuild -ba email2trac-0.13/email2trac.spec
    

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