Setup
Login with a JIRA administrator account in your JIRA instance.
Click the
from the top menu and choose Add-ons
>> The Manage add-ons screen loads.Select Configuration to configure ReceiveMe! from the left-hand side of the page.
- Add an administrator or a usser with suffient permissions to create new users, issues, comments.
- Click on Send button.
Click the
from the top menu and choose SystemClick Incoming Mail under the Mail section, from the left hand menu
Click the button Add incoming mail handler.
Give your mail handler a meaningful name and select a Server. Use the Handler option (ReceiveMe!) Create a new issue or add a comment to an existing issue and click Next.
Select the Project for which you want to create issues, as well as the types of issues to create. You can also indicate whether you want to create the user in JIRA and other options.
- Click Save to start using ReceiveMe!
Users created by ReceiveMe! will not count against the your Jira's user license and therefore they won't be able to access Jira but they will be able to comment and create issues by email.
Configure a superuser
ReceiveMe! performs automatically some actions behind the scenes, such as create users, issues, comments or execute transitions. Therefore, it is required to specify a user with all those permissions in order to ensure that ReceiveMe! works correctly.
To do that you only need to click in the Configure Button after installing the app:
Then, simply use the group picker to select the desired user: