How to configure Redmine to receive emails

Redmine settings

• Log in to Redmine.
• Go to Administration -> Settings -> Incoming emails.
• Activate checkbox Enable WS for incoming emails.
• Click on Generate a key. The generated key will be needed later.
• Save changes.

Configure email aliases

Add the following line to /etc/aliases to receive emails (replace API_key with generated key):

redmine: "|/usr/share/redmine/extra/mail_handler/rdm-mailhandler.rb --url http://localhost --key API_key --allow-override=project,tracker,status,priority,category"

For each project in Redmine add an additional line (replace API_key with generated key and project with the identifier of the project):

redmine+project: "|/usr/share/redmine/extra/mail_handler/rdm-mailhandler.rb --url http://localhost --key API_key --project=project --allow-override=tracker,status,priority,category"

Reload Postfix

newaliases
/etc/init.d/postfix reload

See also

How to install Redmine

How to install Postfix on Redmine server

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineReceivingEmails