Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of TracNotification


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    22[[TracGuideToc]]
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    4 [[PageOutline]]
    5 
    6 Trac supports notification about ticket changes via email.
     4Trac supports notification of ticket changes via email.
    75
    86Email notification is useful to keep users up-to-date on tickets/issues of interest, and also provides a convenient way to post all ticket changes to a dedicated mailing list. For example, this is how the [http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac-tickets/ Trac-tickets] mailing list is set up.
     
    2119Alternatively, a default domain name ('''`smtp_default_domain`''') can be set in the TracIni file (see [#ConfigurationOptions Configuration Options] below). In this case, the default domain will be appended to the username, which can be useful for an "Intranet" kind of installation.
    2220
     21When using apache and mod_kerb for authentication against Kerberos / Active Directory, usernames take the form ('''`username@EXAMPLE.LOCAL`'''). To avoid this being interpreted as an email address, add the Kerberos domain to  ('''`ignore_domains`''').
     22
    2323== Configuring SMTP Notification ==
    2424
     
    2828These are the available options for the `[notification]` section in trac.ini.
    2929
    30  * '''`smtp_enabled`''': Enable email notification.
    31  * '''`smtp_from`''': Email address to use for ''Sender''-headers in notification emails.
    32  * '''`smtp_from_name`''': Sender name to use for ''Sender''-headers in notification emails.
    33  * '''`smtp_replyto`''': Email address to use for ''Reply-To''-headers in notification emails.
    34  * '''`smtp_default_domain`''': (''since 0.10'') Append the specified domain to addresses that do not contain one. Fully qualified addresses are not modified. The default domain is appended to all username/login for which an email address cannot be found from the user settings.
    35  * '''`smtp_always_cc`''': List of email addresses to always send notifications to. ''Typically used to post ticket changes to a dedicated mailing list.''
    36  * '''`smtp_always_bcc`''': (''since 0.10'') List of email addresses to always send notifications to, but keeps addresses not visible from other recipients of the notification email
    37  * '''`smtp_subject_prefix`''': (''since 0.10.1'') Text that is inserted before the subject of the email. Set to "!__default!__" by default.
    38  * '''`always_notify_reporter`''':  Always send notifications to any address in the reporter field (default: false).
    39  * '''`always_notify_owner`''': (''since 0.9'') Always send notifications to the address in the owner field (default: false).
    40  * '''`always_notify_updater`''': (''since 0.10'') Always send a notification to the updater of a ticket (default: true).
    41  * '''`use_public_cc`''': (''since 0.10'') Addresses in To: (owner, reporter) and Cc: lists are visible by all recipients (default is ''Bcc:'' - hidden copy).
    42  * '''`use_short_addr`''': (''since 0.10'') Enable delivery of notifications to addresses that do not contain a domain (i.e. do not end with ''@<domain.com>'').This option is useful for intranets, where the SMTP server can handle local addresses and map the username/login to a local mailbox. See also `smtp_default_domain`. Do not use this option with a public SMTP server.
    43  * '''`mime_encoding`''': (''since 0.10'') E-mail notifications are always sent in 7-bit mode. This option allows to select the MIME encoding scheme. Supported values:
    44    * `base64`: default value, works with any kind of content. May cause some issues with touchy anti-spam/anti-virus engines.
    45    * `qp` or `quoted-printable`: best for european languages (more compact than base64), not recommended for non-ASCII text (less compact than base64)
    46    * `none`: no encoding. Use with plain english only (ASCII). E-mails with non-ASCII chars won't be delivered.
    47  * '''`ticket_subject_template`''': (''since 0.11'') A [http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/text-templates.html Genshi text template] snippet used to get the notification subject.
    48 
    49 Either '''`smtp_from`''' or '''`smtp_replyto`''' (or both) ''must'' be set, otherwise Trac refuses to send notification mails.
    50 
    51 The following options are specific to email delivery through SMTP.
    52  * '''`smtp_server`''': SMTP server used for notification messages.
    53  * '''`smtp_port`''': (''since 0.9'') Port used to contact the SMTP server.
    54  * '''`smtp_user`''': (''since 0.9'') User name for authentication SMTP account.
    55  * '''`smtp_password`''': (''since 0.9'') Password for authentication SMTP account.
    56  * '''`use_tls`''': (''since 0.10'') Toggle to send notifications via a SMTP server using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security TLS], such as GMail.
    57 
     30[[TracIni(notification)]]
    5831
    5932=== Example Configuration (SMTP) ===
     
    6740}}}
    6841
     42=== Example Configuration (`sendmail`) ===
     43{{{
     44[notification]
     45smtp_enabled = true
     46email_sender = SendmailEmailSender
     47sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
     48smtp_from = notifier@example.com
     49smtp_replyto = myproj@projects.example.com
     50smtp_always_cc = ticketmaster@example.com, theboss+myproj@example.com
     51}}}
    6952
    7053=== Customizing the e-mail subject ===
     
    8265=== Customizing the e-mail content ===
    8366
    84 The notification e-mail content is generated based on `ticket_notify_email.txt` in `trac/ticket/templates`.  The default looks like this:
     67The notification e-mail content is generated based on `ticket_notify_email.txt` in `trac/ticket/templates`.  You can add your own version of this template by adding a `ticket_notify_email.txt` to the templates directory of your environment. The default looks like this:
    8568
    8669{{{
    8770$ticket_body_hdr
    8871$ticket_props
    89 #choose ticket.new
    90   #when True
     72{% choose ticket.new %}\
     73{%   when True %}\
    9174$ticket.description
    92   #end
    93   #otherwise
    94     #if changes_body
    95 Changes (by $change.author):
     75{%   end %}\
     76{%   otherwise %}\
     77{%     if changes_body %}\
     78${_('Changes (by %(author)s):', author=change.author)}
    9679
    9780$changes_body
    98     #end
    99     #if changes_descr
    100       #if not changes_body and not change.comment and change.author
    101 Description changed by $change.author:
    102       #end
     81{%     end %}\
     82{%     if changes_descr %}\
     83{%       if not changes_body and not change.comment and change.author %}\
     84${_('Description changed by %(author)s:', author=change.author)}
     85{%       end %}\
    10386$changes_descr
    10487--
    105     #end
    106     #if change.comment
    107 
    108 Comment${not changes_body and '(by %s)' % change.author or ''}:
     88{%     end %}\
     89{%     if change.comment %}\
     90
     91${changes_body and _('Comment:') or _('Comment (by %(author)s):', author=change.author)}
    10992
    11093$change.comment
    111     #end
    112   #end
    113 #end
     94{%     end %}\
     95{%   end %}\
     96{% end %}\
    11497
    11598--
    116 Ticket URL: <$ticket.link>
     99${_('Ticket URL: <%(link)s>', link=ticket.link)}
    117100$project.name <${project.url or abs_href()}>
    118101$project.descr
     
    144127}}}
    145128
     129
     130== Customizing e-mail content for MS Outlook ==
     131
     132Out-of-the-box, MS Outlook normally presents plain text e-mails with a variable-width font; the ticket properties table will most certainly look like a mess in MS Outlook. This can be fixed with some customization of the [#Customizingthee-mailcontent e-mail template].
     133
     134Replace the following second row in the template:
     135{{{
     136$ticket_props
     137}}}
     138
     139with this instead (''requires Python 2.6 or later''):
     140{{{
     141--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     142{% with
     143   pv = [(a[0].strip(), a[1].strip()) for a in [b.split(':') for b in
     144         [c.strip() for c in
     145          ticket_props.replace('|', '\n').splitlines()[1:-1]] if ':' in b]];
     146   sel = ['Reporter', 'Owner', 'Type', 'Status', 'Priority', 'Milestone',
     147          'Component', 'Severity', 'Resolution', 'Keywords'] %}\
     148${'\n'.join('%s\t%s' % (format(p[0]+':', ' <12'), p[1]) for p in pv if p[0] in sel)}
     149{% end %}\
     150--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     151}}}
     152
     153The table of ticket properties is replaced with a list of a selection of the properties. A tab character separates the name and value in such a way that most people should find this more pleasing than the default table, when using MS Outlook.
     154{{{#!div style="margin: 1em 1.75em; border:1px dotted"
     155{{{#!html
     156#42: testing<br />
     157--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
     158<table cellpadding=0>
     159<tr><td>Reporter:</td><td>jonas@example.com</td></tr>
     160<tr><td>Owner:</td><td>anonymous</td></tr>
     161<tr><td>Type:</td><td>defect</td></tr>
     162<tr><td>Status:</td><td>assigned</td></tr>
     163<tr><td>Priority:</td><td>lowest</td></tr>
     164<tr><td>Milestone:</td><td>0.9</td></tr>
     165<tr><td>Component:</td><td>report system</td></tr>
     166<tr><td>Severity:</td><td>major</td></tr>
     167<tr><td>Resolution:</td><td> </td></tr>
     168<tr><td>Keywords:</td><td> </td></tr>
     169</table>
     170--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
     171Changes:<br />
     172<br />
     173&nbsp;&nbsp;* component: &nbsp;changset view =&gt; search system<br />
     174&nbsp;&nbsp;* priority: &nbsp;low =&gt; highest<br />
     175&nbsp;&nbsp;* owner: &nbsp;jonas =&gt; anonymous<br />
     176&nbsp;&nbsp;* cc: &nbsp;daniel@example.com =&gt;<br />
     177&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;daniel@example.com, jonas@example.com<br />
     178&nbsp;&nbsp;* status: &nbsp;new =&gt; assigned<br />
     179<br />
     180Comment:<br />
     181I'm interested too!<br />
     182<br />
     183--<br />
     184Ticket URL: &lt;http://example.com/trac/ticket/42&gt;<br />
     185My Project &lt;http://myproj.example.com/&gt;<br />
     186}}}
     187}}}
     188
     189**Important**: Only those ticket fields that are listed in `sel` are part of the HTML mail. If you have defined custom ticket fields which shall be part of the mail they have to be added to `sel`, example:
     190{{{
     191   sel = ['Reporter', ..., 'Keywords', 'Custom1', 'Custom2']
     192}}}
     193
     194However, it's not as perfect as an automatically HTML-formatted e-mail would be, but presented ticket properties are at least readable by default in MS Outlook...
     195
     196
    146197== Using GMail as the SMTP relay host ==
    147198
     
    161212
    162213Alternatively, you can use `smtp_port = 25`.[[br]]
    163 You should not use `smtp_port = 465`. It will not work and your ticket submission may deadlock. Port 465 is reserved for the SMTPS protocol, which is not supported by Trac. See [comment:ticket:7107:2 #7107] for details.
     214You should not use `smtp_port = 465`. It will not work and your ticket submission may deadlock. Port 465 is reserved for the SMTPS protocol, which is not supported by Trac. See [trac:comment:2:ticket:7107 #7107] for details.
    164215 
    165 == Filtering notifications for one's own changes ==
     216== Filtering notifications for one's own changes and comments ==
    166217In Gmail, use the filter:
    167218
    168 {{{
    169 from:(<smtp_from>) (("Reporter: <username>" -Changes) OR "Changes (by <username>)")
    170 }}}
    171 
    172 For Trac .10, use the filter:
    173219{{{
    174220from:(<smtp_from>) (("Reporter: <username>" -Changes -Comment) OR "Changes (by <username>)" OR "Comment (by <username>)")
     
    180226(see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_(Thunderbird)#Filtering_the_message_body).
    181227
    182 The best you can do is to set "always_notify_updater" in conf/trac.ini to false.
    183 You will however still get an email if you comment a ticket that you own or have reported.
    184 
    185228You can also add this plugin:
    186 http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/NeverNotifyUpdaterPlugin
     229http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/NeverNotifyUpdaterPlugin, or vote for [trac:#2247] to be fixed.
    187230
    188231== Troubleshooting ==