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| >On this tab, you can change your basic account information, |
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| > This tab controls the amount of email Bugzilla sends you. |
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| > The first item on this page is marked <SPAN |
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| >"Users to watch"</SPAN |
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| 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. |
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| > 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. |
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| > In general, users have almost complete control over how much (or |
| how little) email Bugzilla sends them. If you want to receive the |
| maximum amount of email possible, click the <SPAN |
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| > button. If you don't want to receive any email from |
| Bugzilla at all, click the <SPAN |
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| > Your Bugzilla administrator can stop a user from receiving |
| bugmail by adding the user's name to the |
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| best taken only for disabled accounts, as it overrides the |
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| > If you'd like to set your bugmail to something besides |
| 'Completely ON' and 'Completely OFF', the |
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| >"Field/recipient specific options"</SPAN |
| > table |
| allows you to do just that. 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: |
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| > Reporter - Where you are the person who initially |
| reported the bug. Your name/account appears in the |
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| >"Reporter:"</SPAN |
| > field. |
| </P |
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| > Assignee - Where you are the person who has been |
| designated as the one responsible for the bug. Your |
| name/account appears in the <SPAN |
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| >"Assigned To:"</SPAN |
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| field of the bug. |
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| > QA Contact - You are one of the designated |
| QA Contacts for the bug. Your account appears in the |
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| >"QA Contact:"</SPAN |
| > text-box of the bug. |
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| > CC - You are on the list CC List for the bug. |
| Your account appears in the <SPAN |
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| >"CC:"</SPAN |
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| of the bug. |
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| > Voter - You have placed one or more votes for the bug. |
| Your account appears only if someone clicks on the |
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| >"Show votes for this bug"</SPAN |
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| > Some columns may not be visible for your installation, depending |
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| > 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 <SPAN |
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| 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 <SPAN |
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| >"Reporter"</SPAN |
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| > Bugzilla adds the <SPAN |
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| >"X-Bugzilla-Reason"</SPAN |
| > 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. |
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| >) define how you want to |
| receive bugmail with regards to flags. Their use is quite |
| straightforward; enable the checkboxes if you want Bugzilla to |
| send you mail under either of the above conditions. |
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| > 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 <SPAN |
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| >"Only email me |
| reports of changes made by other people"</SPAN |
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| >This is a purely informative page which outlines your current |
| permissions on this installation of Bugzilla - what product groups you |
| are in, and whether you can edit bugs or perform various administration |
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