Redmine

• Allows to the anonymous user to enter his name and e-mail address when adding an issue;
• Allows to the anonymous user to enter his name and e-mail address when adding a note to the issue;
• Displays the entered name and e-mail address anywhere in Redmine instead of "Anonymous";
• Notifies the author of anonymously created issue when it is updated. You can add a note to the issue and author will get the notification as a normal user;
• When Redmine is set up to create issues from mails, it uses the name and e-mail address from "From" header of the received mail;
• Allows to filter issues by the author's name and author's e-mail address (including anonymous authors);

Recommended to use together with Anonymous Watchers plug-in

• Download the latest version of the plugin
• Unzip to /plugins (Redmine 2.x) or /vendor/plugins (Redmine 1.x) folder of Redmine

1. Run rake redmine:plugins:migrate (Redmine 2.x) or rake db:migrate:plugins (Redmine 1.x).
2. Restart Redmine.
3. Enable Add issues and Add notes permissions for the anonymous role, if you plan to permit anonymous users to add new issues through the WEB interface
4. Use rake redmine:email:receive_imap(pop3) with options no_permission_check=1 (if needed) and unknown_user=accept