Redmine

You're using the rake redmine:email:receive_imap setup, and I see you're trying two different things in the parameters there. The parameter allow_override=project,tracker,priority,category,status will mean that people sending inbound email, can actually put something (correctly formatted) in their email body to cause an override of the 'status' field. That's what Toshi means.

However I suspect what you actually want is for any incoming email (e.g. from a customer) without needing to follow any specific format, to have it's status set to "update". You had a go at achieving this by setting a parameter in the command there status="update". Good try, but the rake task doesn't support a 'status' parameter according to the RedmineReceivingEmails documentation. Maybe you were confused by the bit of the docs describing rdm-mailhandler (a different approach)

So... this is an issue! The same issue I am encountering. Unless I'm missing something, there's no way to make rake redmine:email:receive_imap set the status of incoming emails (if they are unformatted emails from customers). Given that this rake task does have parameters to explicitly set project, tracker, category and priority, this seems like an odd omission.

What I did find is this four year old issue, which includes an old (no longer working) patch: #11495

I know you want this discussion in the forum, however when I searched I was brought here. Since I think others might be as well I wanted to add my two cents as I hope it is relevant. When I run the following rake command every emailed ticket status is set to backlog to give the team time to review and prioritize the work.

rake redmine:email:receive_imap RAILS_ENV="production" host=imap.gmail.com port=993 project=PMO tracker=PMO_EPIC priority=normal status=Backlog username=Project_Request@g password=xxxxxxxxxxxxx ssl=true move_on_success=Successfully_created_GATES_tickets --trace --verbose