Mailing list integration for viewing emails with TracLinks

[minhhuynh@…]

Need to have email integration

[Alec Thomas]

You'll need to provide a bit more information than just "email integration" for this ticket to be useful.

[Christopher Lenz]

As Alec said, plus: TracNotification and ​Email2Trac

[josh.moore@…]

Don't mean to spam but I think there is still something of use in this ticket, so I'm reopening.

TracNotification currently works quite well for receiving information about tickets. Perhaps there needs to support changeset notifications, too, but that's another ticket.

What I see as missing and it's a much longer term goal is having mailing list emails accessible as first-class objects in Trac. Trac would then cover and link all major forms of communication I have with co-developers : changelogs, wiki, tickets, and emails.

(I won't go the next step and suggest chat & irc integration…yet.)

I'm also not quite sure of the best way of doing this. Perhaps an abstraction layer over something like ​mailman similar to the subversion backend, or simply having mailing list messages sent to some trac-mailman@… address which then get parsed and saved in the db backend.

[Christian Boos]

It should be possible to create a plugin which would support e-mail Trac objects. However, right now that would be too much work: I think such a plugin would be better off waiting for some progress on the TracObjectModelProposal, in order to benefit out-of-the-box from more functionalities.

Speaking about the rendering of the mail body itself, that's already supported, due to recent improvements to the wiki syntax (trunk/trac/wiki:3317:3320).

Add the ​TracHacks:WikiGoodiesPlugin, and you'd even have the smileys, automatic mailto: links, mozilla-style bold, italic…

[Matthew Good]

Can't you already do this with InterWiki links?

[Christian Boos]

And btw, DrProject has a module for mail. It should be possible to adapt it to Trac.

[Christian Boos]

The #6155 ticket was closed as duplicate of this one.