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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

E-mail sending issues


Nowadays, e-mail is still the most preferred way of electronic communication. Making sure that e-mail emission from Redmine works flawlessly and that e-mails don't end up as spam or that your mail server is not hacked or abused is very important. This recipe tries to address some of the most common e-mail configuration issues. Many problems with Redmine configuration are related to e-mail sending and properly sending e-mails so that they don't end up as spam.

Getting ready…

Make sure that you have a user account ready to send e-mail on the SMTP server. Also, make sure that your server is properly configured and secured and your reverse DNS records are entered.

Tip

You can use a free service, such as http://mxtoolbox.com/, to check your e-mail server's configuration.

How to do it…

As you ensured a properly configured server to send e-mail, the next step is to configure Redmine to send e-mail. By default, after installation, e-mail notifications are turned off, until configuration...