jiramail

jiramail

The jiramail is mail transport for Atlassian's Jira service written in Go. This utility stores data (projects, sprints, issues, comments, etc.) from jira to local maildir. Optionally for making changes, it provides an SMTP interface.

Runtime

There are two ways to run the utility. The first and the main way when the utility in an infinite loop after a some period of time synchronizes the state. The second way, when the utility is started once, synchronizes the state and finishes execution:

jiramail -1

Folders layout

The utility will create the following directory hierarchy:

{Destdir}
  ⤷ {RemoteName}
    ⤷ boards
      ⤷ {BoardName}
        ⤷ backlog
        ⤷ epics
          ⤷ {EpicName}
        ⤷ sprints
          ⤷ {SprintName}
    ⤷ projects
      ⤷ {ProjectKey}

Known problem: If the name of the board, epic or sprint changes, a new maildir will be created. If I use identifiers, it becomes very uninformative.

Configuration

Example:

core:
  loglevel: debug
  logfile: ~/logs/jiramail.log
  lockdir: ~/tmp/jiramail.lock
smtp:
  addr: 127.0.0.1:10025
  lockdir: ~/tmp/jirasmtp.lock
  auth:
    username: jiramail
    password: SMTP-PRIVATE-KEY
remote:
  coreos:
    destdir: ~/Mail/jira/coreos
    baseurl: https://jira.coreos.com
    username: legionus
    password: PRIVATE
    projectmatch: DEVEXP
    boardmatch: DEVEXEP
    delete: remove

Mail client

You can use any mail client that can read the local mailbox in the maildir format.

SMTP server

The utility provides a special SMTP server so that you can make changes in the Jira. It does not send emails anywhere, but only performs API requests based on them. So this is not a real SMTP server.

The server understands the context and the necessary parameters when you reply to the generated message. So it matters to which message you reply.

If you reply to the message and send it to:

To: reply@jira

• reply to issue will add new comment, but if you use reply+subtask@jira then a subtask will be created;
• reply to comment will add new comment;
• reply to project will create a new issue.

To: edit@jira

The reply to this address is used to edit the Subject and the body of the message. Be careful and do not forget about quoting in your mail client. This operation is valid for issues and comments.

To update only subject of issue, use the address: edit+subject@jira. Same with the body of the message. To update only the body, use the address: edit+body@jira.

To: bot@jira

This is a special address where the body of the message is treated as a sequence of directives. Each directive should take one line. Arguments with spaces must be specified in quota (as in shell). Lines starting with '#' or '>' will be ignored. This operation is valid for issues

Change labels

jira labels add "label one" "label two"
jira labels remove no-qe

Change state

jira state "in progress"
jira state To Do

Argument is not case sensitive.

Change priority

jira priority high
jira priority low

Argument is not case sensitive.

Assignee

jira assignee to me
jira assignee to legionus

Watchers

jira watchers add user1
jira watchers remove user2

Story points

Atlassian's Jira does not have a standard field for story points, so you need to have a custom field with name Story points and type either a number or a string.

jira story points 5