Question about Creating issues or comments via email

[srinivasp]

To configure this feature, is it mandatory to have an email address for each project to configure mail handler?

[Renjith Pillai]

Or use specific folders for handle it if IMAP is being used. Use server side rules to move the mails to the appropriate folders for new issues.

And for comments handling you can leave all of them in INBOX and a single handler can take care of all projects.

[Larry Talley]

More specifically, with the defaul "Create a new issue or add a comment to an existing issue" email handler, new issues submitted by email will all be created in the one project specified in the mail handler configuration. But comments to existing issues will be attached correctly regardless of project if the username associated with the origin email address has appropriate authorization and etc.

With that same default email handler you could have all incoming email go into a common "input queue" project, and then have some mechanism to move issues into appropriate project queues. In my organization's "inside the firewall" JIRA we have a common input queue and the development team lead moves issues by hand into the appropriate queue. This is a low-volume application and it gives the team lead a chance to have a finger on the pulse of the issues as well as to make triage and routing decisions.

There are also alternative email handlers that allow the "project" to be specified in the body of the email message and/or automatically applied via rules; see

https://javahollic.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JEMH/JEMH+Home

and possibly search Google for "jira email handler".

[Andy Brook [Plugin People]]

Email support for JIRA projcets with default mail handlers has a one to one mapping. You can setup a project with a mailbox and it will work fine, you can even do this 30+ times. It is at that point the non-scalability of this approach will become more visible, laggy responses, maintenance overhead (only 350 more mailboxes to go...)

What JEMH offers, amongs many other things, is a way to do so much more with a single mailbox, for example:

Automapping addressee to projectKey

If you have the luxury of controlling a mail subdomain (xxx@jira.yourco.net), automatic routing to any number of projects with a key matching the prefix xxx can be achieved with a single mailbox and one checkbox.

Mapping a project by incoming addressee

If you dont have that luxury, and have many different pre-existing address, and are able to setup mail server forwarding rules, such that all those mails end up in a single mailbox, then JEMH Project Mappings allow you to route specific addressee's to specific projects, with customised creation parameters (component/issueType/assignee/...).

Mapping a project by sender

Getting a little more selective, its also possible to map an incoming email based on the sender address, allowing 'account' type management.

Mapping by keyword

A recently added feature now also allows routing of emails to projects based on keyword matching.

So, JEMH (not free) provides many options designed for scalability in JIRA email handling. if you would like to discuss your needs offline, happy to chat; andy at javahollic dot com

[LucasA]

Hi Srinias,

Yes, you must have different mail accounts for each mail handler/project in JIRA.

Best regards,
Lucas Timm

[srinivasp]

We have more than 400 projects. So does it mean i have to confiugre those many number of handlers? Also in the documentation(https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA052/Creating+Issues+and+Comments+from+Email) it was mentioned as

Tip: You can configure JIRA's mail servers so that recipients of email notifications can simply reply to these messages and have the body of their replies added as comments to the relevant issue. To do this, simply set the From address in JIRA's SMTP mail server to match that of the POP or IMAP mail server's account being monitored. In most cases, this means having JIRA's SMTP and POP or IMAP mail servers use the same mail account. Details on how to configure JIRA to handle these emailed replies is mentioned below.

In the from address of SMTP mail server configuration, we already have an email alias mentioned. So JIRA is sending mails for all the actions currently. Could you please let me know how this impacts if we have project wise handlers?