NAME

       rt-mailgate - Mail gateway for Request Tracker

SYNOPSIS

           rt-mailgate --help : this text

       Usual invocation (from MTA):

           rt-mailgate --action (correspond|comment|...) --queue queuename
                       --url http://your.rt.server/
                       [ --debug ]
                       [ --extension (queue|action|ticket) ]
                       [ --timeout seconds ]

OPTIONS

       "--action"
          Specifies what happens to email sent to this alias.  The avaliable basic actions are: "correspond",
          "comment".  Additional actions, such as "take" or "resolve", may be available depending on your local
          @MailPlugins configuration.

          You can execute two or more actions on a single message using a "-" separated list.  RT will execute
          the actions in the listed order.  For example you can use "take-comment", "correspond-resolve" or
          "take-comment-resolve" as actions.

          Note that "take" and "resolve" actions ignore message text if used alone.  Include a  "comment" or
          "correspond" action if you want RT to record the incoming message.

          The default action is "correspond".

       "--queue"
          This flag determines which queue this alias should create a ticket in if no ticket identifier is
          found.

       "--url"
          This flag tells the mail gateway where it can find your RT server. You should probably use the same
          URL that users use to log into RT.

          If you have a self-signed SSL certificate, you may also need to pass "--ca-file" or "--no-verify-ssl",
          below.

       "--ca-file" path
          Specifies the path to the public SSL certificate for the certificate authority that should be used to
          verify the website's SSL certificate.  If your webserver uses a self-signed certificate, you should
          preferentially use this option over "--no-verify-ssl", as it will ensure that the self-signed
          certificate that the mailgate is seeing the right self-signed certificate.

       "--no-verify-ssl"
          This flag tells the mail gateway to trust all SSL certificates, regardless of if their hostname
          matches the certificate, and regardless of CA.  This is required if you have a self-signed
          certificate, or some other certificate which is not traceable back to an certificate your system
          ultimitely trusts.

       "--extension" OPTIONAL
          Some MTAs will route mail sent to user-foo@host or user+foo@host to user@host and present "foo" in the
          environment variable $EXTENSION. By specifying the value "queue" for this parameter, the queue this
          message should be submitted to will be set to the value of $EXTENSION. By specifying "ticket",
          $EXTENSION will be interpreted as the id of the ticket this message is related to.  "action" will
          allow the user to specify either "comment" or "correspond" in the address extension.

       "--debug" OPTIONAL
          Print debugging output to standard error

       "--timeout" OPTIONAL
          Configure the timeout for posting the message to the web server.  The default timeout is 3 minutes
          (180 seconds).

DESCRIPTION

       The RT mail gateway is the primary mechanism for communicating with RT via email. This program simply
       directs the email to the RT web server, which handles filing correspondence and sending out any required
       mail.  It is designed to be run as part of the mail delivery process, either called directly by the MTA
       or "procmail", or in a .forward or equivalent.

SETUP

       Much of the set up of the mail gateway depends on your MTA and mail routing configuration.

       You need to route mail to "rt-mailgate" for the queues you're monitoring. For instance, if you're using
       /etc/aliases and you have a "bugs" queue, you will want something like this:

           bugs:         "|/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bugs --action correspond
                     --url http://rt.mycorp.com/"

           bugs-comment: "|/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue bugs --action comment
                     --url http://rt.mycorp.com/"

       Note that you don't have to run your RT server on your mail server, as the mail gateway will happily
       relay to a different machine.

ENVIRONMENT

       EXTENSION
           Some MTAs will route mail sent to user-foo@host or user+foo@host to user@host and present "foo" in
           the environment variable "EXTENSION". Mailgate adds value of this variable to message in the
           "X-RT-Mail-Extension" field of the message header.

           See also "--extension" option. Note that value of the environment variable is always added to the
           message header when it's not empty even if "--extension" option is not provided.