Sending commit messages via mail must be configured by a Codehaus administrator. Administrators should initially configure this on behalf of project committers. The following procedure should be done on beaver.codehaus.org.

cd into the repository's hooks directory. For example:
cd /home/projects/FOO/scm/hooks

Create a post-commit file and make it executable (sudo chmod 755 post-commit). The contents of the file should include the following (Note: you must change "FOO" to the name of the new repository):

To use SVN::Notify

#!/bin/sh

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/subversion/bin
PROJECT=FOO
JIRA_URL=http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=%s
FISHEYE_URL=http://fisheye.codehaus.org/changelog/FOO/?cs=%s
          
# Note that --from is optional and if omitted the from address will be $COMMITTER@codehaus.org
# JIRA and Fisheye are also optional
svnnotify --repos-path "$REPOS" \
          --revision "$REV" \
          --svnlook /usr/local/subversion/bin/svnlook \
          --to scm@$PROJECT.codehaus.org \
          --from scm@$PROJECT.codehaus.org \
          --with-diff --subject-cx --handler HTML::ColorDiff \
          --jira-url $JIRA_URL \
          --viewcvs-url $FISHEYE_URL

To use Subversion's standard boring script:

#!/bin/sh

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
PATH=/usr/local/subversion/share/tools/hook-scripts

commit-email.pl -s "[FOO]" "$REPOS" "$REV"  scm@FOO.codehaus.org

Clean up permissions and group ownership in hooks directory (make sure you are in the "hooks" directory!!):
sudo chgrp groupname post-commit sudo chmod g+w post-commit

Changing the reply-to address for an scm list

This is not recommended, since it leads to dissemination via the list of messages returned from bad auto-responders and MTAs. Also, it may lead to public replies to the list where personal replies were intended. In addition, the original ``Reply-To:'' header is lost.

If you do want to add a reply-to list header, put

reply-to

into /home/projects/FOO/scm/headerremove, and

Reply-To: list@host.dom

into /home/projects/FOO/scm/headeradd.