On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 14:06:04 -0600 
Tyler Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Stefan Berder wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm now playing with otrs for a week and find this tool really
> > handy. I used to work on RT (http://bestpractical.com/rt/) but it
> > was hard to install, hard to configure, hard to modify, hard, hard,
> > hard ...
> >   while with otrs, on eah thing I want to do I got an answer after
> >   looking in Kernel/Config/Default.pm or in the code. So thank you
> >   for this tool to the core team. Now for the questions : - Is otrs
> >   able to deal with actions in email subject ? My problem is that
> >   some agents prefer to handle the tickets without any web
> >   interface,
> > so my point is to detect an answer of a ticket by mail and make it
> > an agent answer, and for example other things like close for
> > example. It could be detected by [close] in the subject or any other
> > way.
> 
> Take a look at Chapter 7 in the documenation.  Specifically you are
> interested in "Filtering/Dispatching by OTRS/PostMaster modules".
> http://doc.otrs.org/1.2/en/html/receiving-email-filter-module.html. 
> Take a look at /opt/otrs/doc/X-OTRS-Headers.txt to see all of the
> default actions that can be performed with X-OTRS headers.  If you
> need even more complex filtering, then you can write your own
> PostMaster filter modules.  A brief introduction to them is here:
> http://doc.otrs.org/1.2/en/html/dev-custom-modules-postmaster.html.  
> 
> ** Filters are indescriminate.  They do not do any kind of permissions
> checking before processing mail.  Using filters to allow your agents
> to manage the system via email could be disasterous if end-users
> intentionally(or inadvertenly) place specific wordings in the subject
> or body that mimic agent actions.

I looked at the X headers but it's not convenient enough for the use I
project.
I'll take a look at the PostMaster filters, I didn't thought of that, I
suppose I'm not used enough to otrs yet. I'm just planing to add a poor
authentication based on the From header that has to be an agent one. Not
really secure but I plan to use it in an intranet use, so I have to
trust users.


> > - I don't really find the faq usage. The faq has to be filled as a
> > separate section of the ticket system ? My point of view is that we
> 
> FAQ is considered a separate area of the system.  It is not tied into
> or related to tickets.

That's what I understood by using it a little bit. A demonstration is
often better than a long speech ::)


> > should have the ability to fill it with tickets too, this would
> > avoid to loose some time to fill it with an already solved problem.
> 
> Why?  Now you have a duplicate copy of a ticket whose information
> could be just as easily accessed with the full text searching
[...]

As I said before I'm in the focus of nearly closed environment, but I
agree your point of view.

   
> > - Is there any guy who is about to provide a debian packaging of
> > this wonderful application ? If no, I'll probably do it. 
> > 
> 
> Look here: http://lists.otrs.org/pipermail/otrs/2004-April/004692.html

Will look at that.

Thanks for your fast answer btw

Stefan
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