We use a Outlook templates for some help-desk emails.
Is there a way to make different templates for the front-end users?
Something like a pull-down, to select a certain ticket/template?

Jason Dupuy
IT Manager
Global Products Inc.
Earth City, MO 63045
636-939-1622 Phone
636-939-1623 Fax

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter 
Beckman
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:41 PM
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: Re: [otrs] New to OTRS

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Jason Dupuy wrote:

> Still working on the specifics but I'm stumbling on the email settings.
> I'm just about ready to go into production, but confused about the 
> email settings.

  Why are you sending out emails with the technicians email address?  If
  people email [email protected], you should reply from [email protected].
  As long as the client replies with the ticket number in tact (which they
  mostly do), you can have the ticket locked to the technician who last
  responded.

  The technician should NOT reply to the client from their own email client,
  if you want OTRS involved in everything.  The reason: the replies are sent
  directly to the customer from the email client, and not stored in OTRS,
  thus minimizing the value of OTRS: keeping a record of all communication
  with the customer.

  Process flow:

     1. Customer emails [email protected]
     2. OTRS pulls it in
     3. Technicians LOG INTO OTRS ON THE WEB after getting email
        notifications to their individual accounts
     4. If the ticket is locked to them or is a reply, it will be in the
        "Requiring Response" section of the Dashboard.  If not, it will be
        in the "new ticket" section
     5. They click on it, read it, then compose (click empty message by
        default) IN OTRS a reply.  This reply will go out as
        "From: [email protected]"
     6. Customer replies go to [email protected]
     7. OTRS will store a copy, as well as lock the ticket (by default 3
        days I think) to the responder.  If the customer responds in that
        time, the ticket is locked to that tech.  If after 3 days, any tech
        can pick up the ticket and respond, as well as see the entire
        history of that ticket, regardless of who responded.


> Am I making sense at all?

  No. :-)

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