Ensure correct Reporter is assigned, even if using domain alias on incoming email?

Brian Latimer1

We have a series of scripts which run on incoming emails, converting them to JIRA tickets in the appropriate project.  This automation works perfectly, including assigning the "Reporter" to be the user account associated with the sending address.

The problem is that we also have a domain alias - and emails which come from addresses at this alias, do not work as needed; they default to being listed with a creator of our catch-all account ("Triage").

In other words:

• Incoming messages from "JoeSmith@domain.com" are correctly recognized, associating the JIRA user "Joe Smith" with that email address, and specifying the Reporter for the resulting JIRA ticket accordingly

but

• Incoming messages from "JoeSmith@domainalias.com" are NOT recognized; the user "cannot be found", so all such messages default to simply utilizing a catch-all account as the Reporter

 

Is there any way to associate both the domain and domainalias with all of our user accounts, so that tickets reported from either string, will be correctly recognized - and the associated user account used for subsequent processing?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There's no way to do this with the standard email handlers.  They are working on the basic assumption that the sender of the email is a JIRA user who can create issues, but the emails are not being sent by an email address it can recognise.  JoeSmith has an email address of domain.com, not domainalias.com.

Some options might be:

1. Dummy accounts (ugly because Joe would have two accounts)
2. Find/write a new handler
3. Install an email proxy with a rewrite in it

 

Unfortunately, I don't think options 2 and 3 can be done on Cloud.