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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition
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JIRA Essentials - Third Edition

by Patrick Li
April 2015
Beginner
390 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Incoming e-mails

We have seen how you can configure JIRA to send e-mails to notify users about updates on their issues. Although, this is only half of the story when it comes to JIRA's e-mail support.

You can also set up JIRA for it to periodically poll mailboxes for e-mails and create issues based on the e-mails' subject and content. This is a very powerful feature with the following benefits:

  • Hides the complexity of JIRA from business users so they can log issues more efficiently and leave the complexity to your IT team
  • Allows users to create issues even if JIRA can only be accessed within the internal network. Users can send e-mails to a dedicated mailbox for JIRA to poll

Adding an incoming mail server

For JIRA to retrieve e-mails and create issues ...

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