<listitem>
<para>
- <emphasis>Disable Text</emphasis>:
- If you type anything in this box, including just a space, the
- user is prevented from logging in, or making any changes to
- bugs via the web interface.
- The HTML you type in this box is presented to the user when
- they attempt to perform these actions, and should explain
- why the account was disabled.
- <warning>
- <para>Don't disable the administrator account!</para>
- </warning>
-
+ <emphasis>Disable Text</emphasis>:
+ If you type anything in this box, including just a space, the
+ user is prevented from logging in, or making any changes to
+ bugs via the web interface.
+ The HTML you type in this box is presented to the user when
+ they attempt to perform these actions, and should explain
+ why the account was disabled.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Users with disabled accounts will continue to receive
+ mail from Bugzilla; furthermore, they will not be able
+ to log in themselves to change their own preferences and
+ stop it. If you want an account (disabled or active) to
+ stop receiving mail, add the account name (one account
+ per line) to the file <filename>data/nomail</filename>.
+ </para>
<note>
- <para>The user can still submit bugs via
- the e-mail gateway, if you set it up, even if the disabled text
- field is filled in. The e-mail gateway should
- <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- be enabled for secure installations of Bugzilla.</para>
+ <para>
+ Even users whose accounts have been disabled can still
+ submit bugs via the e-mail gateway, if one exists.
+ The e-mail gateway should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be
+ enabled for secure installations of Bugzilla.
+ </para>
</note>
- </para>
+ <warning>
+ <para>
+ Don't disable all the administrator accounts!
+ </para>
+ </warning>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<section id="emailsettings">
<title>Email Settings</title>
- <para>On this tab you can reduce or increase the amount of email sent
- you from Bugzilla, opting in our out depending on your relationship to
- the bug and the change that was made to it. (Note that you can also do
- client-side filtering using the X-Bugzilla-Reason header which Bugzilla
- adds to all bugmail.)</para>
-
- <para>By entering user email names, delineated by commas, into the
- "Users to watch" text entry box you can receive a copy of all the
- bugmail of other users (security settings permitting.) This powerful
- functionality enables seamless transitions as developers change
- projects or users go on holiday.</para>
+ <para>
+ This tab controls the amount of email Bugzilla sends you.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The first item on this page is marked <quote>Users to watch</quote>.
+ When you enter one or more comma-delineated user accounts (usually email
+ addresses) into the text entry box, you will receive a copy of all the
+ bugmail those users are sent (security settings permitting).
+ This powerful functionality enables seamless transitions as developers
+ change projects or users go on holiday.
+ </para>
<note>
- <para>The ability to watch other users may not be available in all
- Bugzilla installations. If you can't see it, ask your
- administrator.</para>
+ <para>
+ The ability to watch other users may not be available in all
+ Bugzilla installations. If you don't see this feature, and feel
+ that you need it, speak to your administrator.
+ </para>
</note>
+
+ <para>
+ The <quote>Field/recipient specific options</quote> table
+ allows you to determine how much mail Bugzilla sends you.
+ The rows of the table
+ define events that can happen to a bug -- things like
+ attachments being added, new comments being made, the
+ priority changing, etc. The columns in the table define
+ your relationship with the bug:
+ </para>
+
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reporter - Where you are the person who initially
+ reported the bug. Your name/account appears in the
+ <quote>Reporter:</quote> field.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Assignee - Where you are the person who has been
+ designated as the one responsible for the bug. Your
+ name/account appears in the <quote>Assigned To:</quote>
+ field of the bug.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ QA Contact - You are one of the designated
+ QA Contacts for the bug. Your account appears in the
+ <quote>QA Contact:</quote> text-box of the bug.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ CC - You are on the list CC List for the bug.
+ Your account appears in the <quote>CC:</quote> text box
+ of the bug.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Voter - You have placed one or more votes for the bug.
+ Your account appears only if someone clicks on the
+ <quote>Show votes for this bug</quote> link on the bug.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Some columns may not be visible for your installation, depending
+ on your site's configuration.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ To fine-tune your bugmail, decide the events for which you want
+ to receive bugmail; then decide if you want to receive it all
+ the time (enable the checkbox for every column), or only when
+ you have a certain relationship with a bug (enable the checkbox
+ only for those columns). For example: if you didn't want to
+ receive mail when someone added themselves to the CC list, you
+ could uncheck all the boxes in the <quote>CC Field Changes</quote>
+ line. As another example, if you never wanted to receive email
+ on bugs you reported unless the bug was resolved, you would
+ un-check all boxes in the <quote>Reporter</quote> column
+ except for the one on the <quote>The bug is resolved or
+ verified</quote> row.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you want to receive the
+ maximum amount of email possible, check every box in every column.
+ if you don't want to receive any email from
+ Bugzilla at all, ensure that every box in this table is un-checked.
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Your Bugzilla administrator can stop a user from receiving
+ bugmail by adding the user's name to the
+ <filename>data/nomail</filename> file. This is a drastic step
+ best taken only for disabled accounts, as it overrides the
+ the user's individual mail preferences.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Bugzilla adds the <quote>X-Bugzilla-Reason</quote> header to
+ all bugmail it sends, describing the recipient's relationship
+ (AssignedTo, Reporter, QAContact, CC, or Voter) to the bug.
+ This header can be used to do further client-side filtering.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ By default, Bugzilla sends out email regardless of who made the
+ change... even if you were the one responsible for generating
+ the email in the first place. If you don't care to receive bugmail
+ from your own changes, check the box marked <quote>Only email me
+ reports of changes made by other people</quote>.
+ </para>
+
</section>
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