email.xml

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<section id="admin.config.email">
	<title>Email</title>

	<variablelist>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_webmaster_email</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>The webmaster's e-mail address. This address is displayed in
					the bottom of all MantisBT
					pages. webmaster@example.com
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_from_email</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>The email address to be used as the source of all emails
					sent by MantisBT. noreply@example.com
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_return_path_email</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Email address to receive bounced emails.</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_enable_email_notification</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Set to ON to enable email notifications, OFF to
					disable them. Default is ON. Note that disabling
					email notifications has no effect on emails generated
					as part of the user signup process. When set to OFF,
					the password reset feature is disabled. Additionally,
					notifications of administrators updating accounts are
					not sent to users.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_notifications_verbose</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>
					When enabled, the email notifications will include the full issue with
					a hint about the change type at the top, rather than using dedicated
					notifications that are focused on what changed.  This change can be
					overridden in the database per user.  Default is ON.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_default_notify_flags</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Associates a default notification flag with each action,
					to control who should be notified. The default will be used
					if the action is not defined in <emphasis>$g_notify_flags</emphasis>
					or if the flag is not included in the specific action definition.
				</para>
				<para>The list of actions include:
					<emphasis>new</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>assigned</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>resolved</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>bugnote</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>reopened</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>closed</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>deleted</emphasis>,
					<emphasis>feedback</emphasis>.
				</para>
				<para>The default is:
<programlisting>
$g_default_notify_flags = array(
	'reporter'      =&gt; ON,
	'handler'       =&gt; ON,
	'monitor'       =&gt; ON,
	'bugnotes'      =&gt; ON,
	'category'      =&gt; ON,
	'explicit'      =&gt; ON,
	'threshold_min' =&gt; NOBODY,
	'threshold_max' =&gt; NOBODY
);
</programlisting>
					<emphasis>threshold_min</emphasis> and
					<emphasis>threshold_max</emphasis> are used to send messages to all
					members of the project whose status is
					<itemizedlist>
						<listitem>
							<para>greater than or equal to <emphasis>threshold_min</emphasis>, and</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para>less than or equal to <emphasis>threshold_max</emphasis>.</para>
						</listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
				</para>
				<para>Sending messages to everyone would set
					<emphasis>threshold_min</emphasis> to ANYBODY and
					<emphasis>threshold_max</emphasis> to NOBODY.
					To send to all DEVELOPERS and above, use DEVELOPER and
					NOBODY respectively.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_notify_flags</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Defines the specific notification flags when they are
					different from the defaults defined in
					<emphasis>$g_default_notify_flags</emphasis>.
				</para>
				<para>For example, the following code overrides the default by
					disabling notifications to bugnote authors and users
					monitoring the bug when submitting a new bug:
<programlisting>
$g_notify_flags['new'] = array(
	'bugnotes' =&gt; OFF,
	'monitor' =&gt; OFF,
);
</programlisting>
				See <xref linkend="admin.customize.email" />
				for further examples of customizing the notification flags.
				</para>
				<para>Available actions include:
					<itemizedlist>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>new</emphasis>:
								a new bug has been added
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>reopened</emphasis>:
								the bug has been reopened
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>deleted</emphasis>:
								a bug has been deleted
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>owner</emphasis>:
								the bug has been assigned a new owner
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>bugnote</emphasis>:
								a bugnote has been added to a bug
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>sponsor</emphasis>:
								the sponsorship for the bug has changed
								(added, deleted or updated)
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>relation</emphasis>:
								a relationship for the bug has changed
								(added, deleted or updated)
							</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para><emphasis>monitor</emphasis>:
								a user is added to the monitor list.
							</para>
						</listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
					In addition, an action can match the bug status in
					<emphasis>$g_status_enum_string</emphasis>. Note that spaces
					in the string are replaced with underscores ('_') when
					creating the action. Thus, using the defaults, 'feedback'
					would be a valid action.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_receive_own</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>This defines whether users should receive emails for their
					own actions. This option is defaulted to OFF, hence, users do not
					receive email notification for their own actions.
					This can be a source for confusions for users upgrading from MantisBT
					0.17.x versions, since in these versions users used to get notified
					of their own actions.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_validate_email</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Determines whether email addresses are validated.
				</para>
				<para>When ON (default), validation is performed using the
					pattern given by the
					<ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#valid-e-mail-address">
						HTML5 specification for <emphasis>email</emphasis>
						type form input elements</ulink>.
					When OFF, validation is disabled.
				</para>
				<note><para>
					Regardless of how this option is set, validation is
					never performed when using LDAP email
					(i.e. when $g_use_ldap_email = ON,
					see <xref linkend="admin.config.auth.ldap" />),
					as we assume that it is handled by the directory.
				</para></note>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_check_mx_record</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Set to OFF to disable email checking. Default is
					OFF.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_allow_blank_email</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>If ON, allows the user to omit an email address field.
					If you allow users to create their own accounts, they must specify
					an email at that point, no matter what the value of this option is.
					Otherwise they wouldn't get their passwords.
				</para>
				<para>
					Administrators are able to bypass this check to enable them to create
					special accounts like anonymous access and other service accounts that
					don't need notifications.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_login_enabled</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>
					Enable support for logging in by email and password, in addition to
					username and password.  This will only work as long as there is a single
					user with the specified email address and the email address is not blank.
					The default value is OFF.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_ensure_unique</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>
					When enabled, the uniqueness of email addresses will be inforced for new
					users as well as updates to existing ones.  Note that there can be duplicate
					emails before this option was turned ON.  Default is ON.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_limit_email_domains</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Only allow and send email to addresses in the given domain(s).
					This is useful as a security feature and it is also useful in cases
					like Sourceforge where its servers are only limited to send emails
					to SourceForge email addresses in order to avoid
					spam. $g_limit_email_domains =
					array( 'users.sourceforge.net', 'sourceforge.net' );
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_show_user_email_threshold</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>This specifies the access level that is needed to have user
					names hyperlinked with mailto: links. The default value is NOBODY,
					hence, even administrators won't have this feature enabled.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_phpMailer_method</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Select the method to send mail:
					<itemizedlist>
						<listitem><para>
							<emphasis>PHPMAILER_METHOD_MAIL</emphasis>
							for use of mail() function,
						</para></listitem>
						<listitem><para>
							<emphasis>PHPMAILER_METHOD_SENDMAIL</emphasis>
							for sendmail (or postfix),
						</para></listitem>
						<listitem><para>
							<emphasis>PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP</emphasis>
							for SMTP,
						</para></listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
					Default is PHPMAILER_METHOD_MAIL.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_smtp_host</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>This option specifies the SMTP server to submit messages to.
					The SMTP server (MTA) then takes on the responsibility of delivering
					messages to their final destinations.
				</para>
				<para>To use the local SMTP (if available) set this to 'localhost',
					otherwise use the fully qualified domain name of the remote SMTP server.
				</para>
				<para>It can be either a single hostname, or multiple semicolon-delimited hostnames.
					You can specify for each host a port other than the default, using format:
					<emphasis>hostname:port</emphasis>
					(e.g. "smtp1.example.com:25;smtp2.example.com").
				</para>
				<para>Hosts will be tried in the given order.
				</para>
				<note><para>This is only used with
					<emphasis>PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP</emphasis>
					(see $g_phpmailer_method).
				</para></note>
				<para>The default is 'localhost'.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_smtp_port</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>The default SMTP port to use.
					This can be overridden individually for specific hosts.
					(see $g_smtp_host).
				</para>
				<para>Typical SMTP ports are 25 and 587.
				</para>
				<para>The default is 25.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_smtp_connection_mode</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Allow secure connection to the SMTP server. Valid values are:
					<itemizedlist>
						<listitem><para><emphasis>'' (empty string)</emphasis>:
							No encryption. This is the default.
						</para></listitem>
						<listitem><para><emphasis>ssl</emphasis></para></listitem>
						<listitem><para><emphasis>tls</emphasis></para></listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_smtp_username</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>SMTP Server Authentication user
				</para>
				<para>Allows the use of SMTP Authentication when using a remote SMTP host.
				</para>
				<note><para>must be set to '' (empty string) if the SMTP host
					does not require authentication.
				</para></note>
				<para>Default is ''.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_smtp_password</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>This is the password that is used in SMTP Authentication.
					Not used when $g_smtp_username = ''
				</para>
				<para>Default is ''.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_send_using_cronjob</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Disables sending of emails as soon as an action is performed.
		Emails are instead queued and must be sent by running
		scripts/send_emails.php periodically. This script can only be
		executed from the CLI, not from the web interface, for security
		reasons.</para>
		<para>Enabling this option can help with performance problems if large
		numbers of emails are generated or mail delivery is slow by not
		delaying page execution when sending emails.</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_separator1</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Default is str_pad('', 70, '='); This means 70 equal
					signs.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_separator2</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Default is str_pad('', 70, '-'); This means 70 minus
					signs.
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
		<varlistentry>
			<term>$g_email_padding_length</term>
			<listitem>
				<para>Default is 28.</para>
			</listitem>
		</varlistentry>
	</variablelist>

	<para>MantisBT uses flags and a threshold system to generate emails on
		events. For each new event, email is sent to:
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem>
				<para>the reporter, qualified by the notify flag 'reporter'
					below
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>the handler (or Assigned to), qualified by the notify
					flag 'handler' below
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>anyone monitoring the bug, qualified by the notify flag
					'monitor' below
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>anyone who has ever added a bugnote the bug, qualified by
					the notify flag 'bugnotes' below
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>anyone assigned to the project whose access level is
					greater than or equal to the notify flag 'threshold_min' and less
					than or equal to the notify flag 'threshold_max' below
				</para>
			</listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
	</para>

	<para>
		From this list, those recipients who meet the following criteria
		are eliminated:
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem>
				<para>the originator of the change, if $g_email_receive_own is
					OFF
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>the recipient either no longer exists, or is
					disabled
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>the recipient has turned their email_on_&lt;new
					status&gt; preference OFF
				</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>the recipient has no email address entered</para>
			</listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
	</para>
</section>