email2trac For Linux

email2trac is an open source, freely distributed and platform-independent command-line software implemented in Python and comprised of several utilities that can be used for easily and quickly converting emails to tickets for the Trac issue tracking system.

Key features include support for converting email messages in the HTML format, support for attachments, support for updating tickets via email, Unicode support, workflow support, DiscussionPlugin support, FullBlogPlugin support, and spam detection.

In order to control the behavior, the utility can be easily configured via its configuration file. Some command-line options are also provided when running email2trac from the a Linux terminal emulator.

The software is written in the C and Python programming languages. To install it from sources, you must download the latest archive from Softpedia or the project’s official homepage, save it on your computer, extract its contents, open a terminal emulator and navigate to the location of the extracted archive files with the ‘cd’ command.

Then, you must type the ‘./configure && make’ command to configure, optimize and compile the source code of the program for your hardware architecture and operating system. Install the software system wide by executing the ‘make install’ command with root privileges.