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How To Use Email To Create And Reply To Forums on Redmine

November 12th, 2009 post by hiro
Redmine

Redmine

We’re using Redmine not only as a BTS (Bug Tracking System), but also as a project management tool. We used combination of Basecamp and Trac until  October but now we’re trying to decide on a single tool to manage projects and issues. Of course we’ll keep using Basecamp for some projects but it seems better to use only one tool to reduce management costs. Redmine is my answer. It’s a BTS and a collaboration tool.

One huge disadvantage of Redmine when I compare it with Basecamp was email updating feature. There is no good solution on Redmine to create and reply to forum messages. Email discussions are important for messaliberty. So I wrote some code to use the email – forum messages feature on Redmine 0.8.5.

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