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Setting up JIRAS from emails and setting jira name from email subject line

Paula Lyon-Lee February 28, 2023

Hello,

So the issue I have is that new emails are not always creating new JIRAs when they come through due to similar email subject lines.

for example each month I receive an email that has the following subject line where the ## is the version number.
Airport Operations Alert 10'16 v##

The issue is that JIRA is matching the first part of the subject to an old ticket that has been resolved and is updating it rather than creating a new ticket.

I was wondering if there is a way of updating it so that
Airport Operations Alert 10'16 v61
Airport Operations Alert 10'16 v62

would create different tickets rather than updating an existing one.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 28, 2023

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

What have you set up to process the incoming emails?  Jira's email handlers don't do de-duplication, they always create a new issue or comment from emails.

Paula Lyon-Lee February 28, 2023

We use Gmail.

The issue is not with  de-duplication but rather with the creation of new tickets.

for example 

incoming email
to: support@something.com
subject: Airport Operations Alert 10'16 v61

this will create a new jira say pro-116 and if you reply to all updates the jira created too so is working as expected.

the problem comes when a new email with the next version comes in

to: support@something.com
subject: Airport Operations Alert 10'16 v62

Instead of creating a new jira it updates the previous one so pro-116
even though its a new email thread. 

I think this is down to the subject line matching within JIRA as if there is a character limit on it then it would explain why this is happening

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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February 28, 2023

Ok, but what have you set up to process incoming emails?

A mail handler?  A JSM email channel?  An app?

Paula Lyon-Lee March 1, 2023

We have a mail handler set up.

We have one entry set up for each support email address, each entry has the following items set up for it

  • Bulk: ignore
  • CC Assignee: false
  • CC Watchers: true
  • Catch Email Address: supportEmailAddressForClient
  • Create Users: false
  • Default Reporter: support
  • Notify Users: true
  • Strip Quotes: false

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