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The following script might help
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt-to ... _issue.php

Had the following discussion some months ago https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=35870
For a very old version, a user provided a solution with truncated field https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9550

I don't have free time to have a deeper look and provide support for this.
Checking existing plugins might help.
E.g. https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/Sni ... ippets.php

Check also page My Account > Manage Columns

RandyA wrote: 20 Nov 2025, 22:29 In other contexts, it probably does not matter.

If you create an issue and user myfishingwebsite.com adds a note to it, you will get an email notification containing user name myfishingwebsite.com.

I propose that $s_new_account_greeting be changed for all languages and stop including the username.

That would fix this single workflow.
I agree that this is a very important workflow in terms of security (maybe even the most important one), but there are a lot more workflows where the username ...

MantisBT is sending plain text (as opposd to HTML) email, so I agree to your statement concerning email clients.
Even for HTML email it's questionable to convert such strings to links.

You could restrict user names by setting MantisBT configuration option

THO wrote: 14 Nov 2025, 09:33 I use VEditor 1.1.0 as text Editor and I can past image in the bug description.

Ok, so there is no need to change any code in standard MantisBT.

Is your issue fixed by increasing $g_max_textarea_length ?

How do you paste an image into a bug description?
Do you have installed a plugin for that?
Bug descriptions can just contain text in standard MantisBT.

I suspect the changed behavior is caused by the changes to fix https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=35893
If I am right, you could add the ...

then copy over the modified email_api.php from the old install to new

You lost all changes of this file between 2.27.0 and 2.27.3

MantisBT 2.27.3 is a hotfix release addressing a couple of regression issues affecting Admin Checks introduced by 2.27.2

Have a look at our Blog for more details.

Note that MantisBT 2.27 is only compatible with PHP up to version 8.3. Upcoming 2.28.0 release will bring support for PHP 8.4 and later.

redaky wrote: 30 Oct 2025, 07:23 Extending MantisBT into a system for managing formal document reviews

As mentioned above, this is no extending MantisBT but a fork starting a new product.

MantisBT 2.27.2 is a maintenance and security release addressing 4 vulnerabilities.

Have a look at our Blog for more details.

Note that MantisBT 2.27 is only compatible with PHP up to version 8.3. Upcoming 2.28.0 release will bring support for PHP 8.4 and later.

I am not able to reproduce the issue using the given information.
Are you able to reproduce after upgarding to latest stable version (2.27.1 at the moment)?

Creating a fork instead of creating a pliugin to standard MantisBT is questionable.
There are just a few contributors for standard MantisBT, so I expect even fewer contributors for a specialized version.
Nonetheless, wish you success for your project.