Changing the author when creating a task from an email

[Eleonora Light]

I have this situation:
I created a service project in Jira Service Management. In this project, in settings, I have set up support mail in the Email queries section. When emails from users (who are not registered in jira) arrive at this mail, tasks are created and everything is fine. But my site has its own form for requests, which is sent to the support mail.

A letter arrives at the support mail, where all the information from the form is in the body of the letter, and example@mail.com is always in the sender. When jira creates a task from this email, example@mail.com is set in Reporter. The body of the letter contains the e-mail address of the User who applied through the form on the website.

I cannot change the form, only the processing of letters from the support mail.

How can I replace the address example@mail.com in the Reporter field with the one specified by the User and which is in the body of the email?

The general task is to set up mail processing and task creation for support, and so that support can respond to requests through the jira.

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Eleonora Light , welcome to the community.

You could use automation to achieve this goal. Are you familiar with creating automation rules? Below is the basic concept of what you would need to do and I have also included a link to the automation documentation. As well, there are quite a few examples in the community that demonstrate how to change a field using automation, as well as how to extract data from the description field which equates to the body of the email used to create an issue.

• trigger - issue created
• condition - JQL - request-channel-type = email
• action - edit issue and choose the Reporter field then use smartvalues to extract the reporter text and use as the reporter

here is a good article about extracting text from description field - Extract-Content-out-of-Description-and-Summary-with-Regex-and-automation  

Here is a link to Atlassian documentation on automation- jira-cloud-automation 

[Eleonora Light]

Hi @Jack Brickey , thanks )) I hope I will be useful to the community.
I start to do automation rules but stuck in "action", because when I chose Reporter field I saw drop-down list with type of users. 
Also I have a conditions "if" - in email I have specific trigger words.
I looked through the link you mentioned and saw the REGEX. I will read more about it.
Thanks a lot!  I will check and write if have a question.

[Eleonora Light]

I tried the REGEX expression as described in the article. The rule is executed without errors. But instead of the found email address, "Anonymous" is displayed in the Reporter field.
I tried with other field (Labels) and it works fine there. Substitutes the found value into the field.

Even if I put the email of existing user in Jira it still installs "Anonymous" value.

[Jack Brickey]

That is interesting. Can you share your rule and also an example email body. Feel free to obfuscate any private info e,.g. Emails.

[Eleonora Light]

I made the simple rule without if condition.
If I put a specific user in rule it works fine.  

[Eleonora Light]

the original rule is this

[Jack Brickey]

Thanks for sharing. I have been buried in other activities (building out my woodworking shop). I will try to give this a try tomorrow and let you know what I find.