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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating mail handlers to process incoming e-mails


JIRA is not only able to send e-mails to users, but also to poll and process e-mails. It can also create issues, or add comments to the existing issues. When set up correctly, this can be a powerful way to let your users interact with JIRA.

In this recipe, we will set up JIRA to poll incoming e-mails so that it can create new issues and add comments to the existing issues. This is useful in a help-desk scenario where customers can write e-mails to the company's support e-mail address, and let JIRA automatically create issues from them.

Getting ready

Since JIRA will be polling e-mails from an inbox, you need to have its connection details, including the following:

  • The protocol it supports (for example, POP or IMAP)

  • Authentication details

How to do it...

The first step to configure JIRA for processing incoming e-mails is to set up the inboxes that JIRA will use to poll the e-mails from:

  1. Navigate to Administration | System | Incoming Mail.

  2. Click on...