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--- mantisbt:reporting_via_email [2007/07/31 02:34] – giallu
+++ mantisbt:reporting_via_email [2013/12/26 13:05] (current) – Remove v* and p* bad words. vboctor
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    * Making sure that users don't spoof the email FROM address to impersonate other users.
    * Support different types of email formats and protocols (e.g. POP3).
-   * Making sure a company keeps control on the issues in their bug tracker (i.e. make sure no one can report a single issue that has viagra links).  A company doesn't want their customers to login to their bugtracker and find porn and viagra related issues.
+   * Making sure a company keeps control on the issues in their bug tracker (i.e. make sure no one can report a single issue that has spam links).  A company doesn't want their customers to login to their bugtracker and find spam issues.
+__giallu__
+'' Do we really think mantis can control/avoid SPAM when google itself can't? If a company receives spam, the problem is on the mail server, not on the mantis installation.''
 ===== Brainstorming =====
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    * Ability to retrieve email messages from POP3 accounts.
    * Support for one email account per project or one for all projects. (//Ari Maniatis// I don't think this is needed  - it is trivial for most Mantis admins to arrange for several email addresses to be delivered into the same POP account)
+__giallu__
+''Could we start from a tenfold easier scenario like: ability to process an email from the standard input? did I say, pretty please?''
 ===== Annotating tasks (meta-data) =====
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 ''[bug 1234] broken on IE 7''
 Naturally we'd need to look beyond "re:", "aw:" and similar prefixes.
+__giallu__
+'' 123@b.m.o implies we would need an email address for each bug: not really desiderable ''
    * If a user replies to a notification related to an issue, then the new part in the reply should be added as a note.  Inline replies are not supported.  Hence, the note will be extracted from the top of the message. We should check for and remove the most common reply separators such as "on .+ replied with", etc.
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    * Why do multiple Mantis users have the same email address? Can it be made a requirement that they are unique?
    * We need the ability for users to have multiple email addresses. This is very common for our customers.