redmine_issue_to_email

Plugin for Redmine. With only one click bulk export issues to email containing all attachments as email attachments. Email issues look like real issue with clickable attachments.

Use case(s)

• Save issues to a long term storage IMAP database for documentation purposes
• Add issues to custom software document management systems
• Preserve issues for a time after Redmine

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Features

• Keeps theme style
• Email issues look like real issues
• Inline all CSS
• Attachments are kept iniline
  • Supports Apple Mail inline attachments style
  • Supports Thunderbird (also Outlook) inline attachments style
• Keeps all issue attributes and custom field values in email custom headers, so long-term email storage clients can sort by attributes
• Emails get issue ID as email message ID, so email clients relate related issues to each other
• Export permission setting
• Export as seen by selectable user
• Store to IMAP
  • Save to IMAP folder
  • SSL
• Store to script
  • Call custom script with following variables
    • %f - Filename of exported .eml-file
    • %u - Redmine Login
    • %p - Project identifier
    • %s - Issue-subjet (escaped)
    • %id - Issue ID
    • %pid - Project ID
    • %c - Issue created on
    • %a - Issue archived an
• Change issue status on export
• Keep issue detail notice "stored as email"
• Call from context menu
• Bulk export
• Background export (if 'sucker punch' is activated in application.rb)
• Honors workflow permissions
• Honors roles and permisions
  • Edit settings permissions
  • Export permissions
• Inherits settings from parent project unless self defined settings
• Global plugin settings

Install

1. download plugin and copy plugin folder redmine_issue_to_email go to Redmine's plugins folder

2. go to redmine root folder

bundle install

bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production NAME=redmine_issue_to_email

3. optionally add to /config/application.rb

config.active_job.queue_adapter = :sucker_punch

4. restart server f.i.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Uninstall

1. go to redmine root folder

bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production NAME=redmine_issue_to_email VERSION=0

2. go to plugins folder, delete plugin folder redmine_issue_to_email

rm -r redmine_issue_to_email

3. delete from /config/application.rb

config.active_job.queue_adapter = :sucker_punch

4. restart server f.i.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Use

• Make sure you have the right permission to "Manage Issue To Email Settings" in the roles and permission settings in the Redmine Administration menu

• Go to Administration -> Settings -> API

  • Choose Enable REST web service

• Go to Administration -> Plugins -> Redmine Issue To Email -> Configure

  • Select Apple- or Thunderbird-compatibilty (important - both email clients behave differently)
  • Select from which user's view the issue should be exported

• Go to Projects -> Settings -> Modules and add Issue-To-Email to project

• Go to Projects -> Settings -> Issue-To-Email

  • Optionally enter IMAP credentials
  • Optionally enter server script with available variables (in Help)
  • Optionallly choose status after export

Save!

Now you can right click an issue or on many issues at a time in the issue index view export your issues. Issues will be saved to the destination configured in it's project.

Have fun!

Localisations

• English
• German

Change-Log

• 1.0.1

  • added security measures against unauthorized access
  • added redirect to login for unauthorized access
  • corrected typos in localization strings
  • added conversion of attachment urls next to present conversion of attachment paths
  • added feature to allow for empty host string in global Redmine settings

• 1.0.0 running on Redmine 3.4.6