James,

Sorry for the delay in responding, but I was on vacation. The "Recipient Type Flag" is only used to display a special string by the side of the sender name, like so:

Real Sender: John Doe <jo...@doe-enterprises.com> Routed Sender: John Doe [via Eventum] <issu...@domain.com>

That way you can quickly see that the message you are looking at came from Eventum, and a reply to it will be routed back into Eventum. It's basically just a visual cue to help people.

Instead of configuring your server to redirect issue_*@ and note_*@ emails to a mailbox, you should make it redirect the messages into a PHP script, like explained in the INSTALL file:

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1)- Email Routing Script (misc/route_emails.php)

The email routing feature is used to automatically associate a thread of emails into an Eventum issue. By setting up qmail (or even postfix) to deliver emails sent to a specific address (usually issue-<number>@<domain>) to the above script, users are able to use their email clients to reply to emails coming from Eventum, and those replies will be automatically associated with the issue and broadcasted to the entire notification list.

The entire email message should be passed as standard input to the script, and the only parameter to it should be email account to which this email should be associated with. The following is an example of a successful run of this script:

cat example_email.txt | php -q route_emails.php 1

This script also saves any routed messages it receives in a separate directory, so you would never lose emails. Create a 'routed_emails' sub-directory under /path-to-eventum/misc/ and setup the proper permission bits on it.

IMPORTANT: Please be aware that depending on the MDA that you are using (qmail, postfix or whatever), you may need to manually change the exit codes used in this script to handle the proper signals to the MDA. For example, postfix uses exit code 78 to signal a configuration problem, but other agents may need different exit codes.

2)- Note Routing Script (misc/route_notes.php)

The note routing feature is used to automatically associate a thread of notes into an Eventum issue. By setting up qmail (or even postfix) to deliver emails sent to a specific address (usually note-<number>@<domain>) to the above script, users are able to use their email clients to reply to internal notes coming from Eventum, and those replies will be automatically associated with the issue and broadcasted to the notification list staff members.

The entire email message should be passed as standard input to the script. The following is an example of a successful run of this script:

cat example_note_email.txt | php -q route_notes.php

This script also saves any routed messages it receives in a separate directory, so you would never lose notes. Create a 'routed_notes' sub-directory under /path-to-eventum/misc/ and setup the proper permission bits on it.

IMPORTANT: Please be aware that depending on the MDA that you are using (qmail, postfix or whatever), you may need to manually change the exit codes used in this script to handle the proper signals to the MDA. For example, postfix uses exit code 78 to signal a configuration problem, but other agents may need different exit codes.

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You need to pass the full body of the email to those PHP scripts, and they will take care of associating the email into the proper issue, and broadcasting the email to the notification list.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

--Joao