This may be an option, if the agent has access to that account, but you will
run into problems with filters in OTRS, if they refer to the “To” address.

 

Regards

Jan Dreyer

IT Administrator / Operations Team / M-IT OMS

 

Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von
[email protected]
Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2012 10:42
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [otrs] Ideas for forwarding from technician's email to OTRS

 

Hi,

 

We have the same situation, customers who are mailing to technicians
directly.

 

We simply move the mail to the support mailbox (this is possible with
outlook if you have both your own and the support mailbox, just drag and
drop)

It is than automaticly picked up by OTRS and processed.

 

 

Met vriendelijke groet / Gruß / Best Regards,

Jurjen Verhoeff 
Beckhoff.nl / IAL

  _____  

From: Mary Hunter [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: zondag 18 maart 2012 2:39
To: OTRS Email List
Subject: [otrs] Ideas for forwarding from technician's email to OTRS

 

Hi,


It is sometimes difficult for us to convince some users to email our
helpdesk email instead of emailing particular technicians. This is rough on
our techs and our users - if a technician is out or busy, the user doesn't
get the speedy service they would get if they had used our helpdesk, and it
means our techs have to either log the ticket manually from their email
and/or explain that they just have to email a different email address.

 

Also, if a person is high enough on the org chart, you just don't tell them
you're not going to help them because they contacted you through the wrong
channel.

 

Even if it's a user that we can't get to go through the helpdesk for
whatever reason, we want to log these calls properly, and get them into our
ticket system so they can be tracked and ensure proper followup and quality
control.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has found an easy way for technicians to log tickets
from their email into OTRS -- easier than logging a ticket by filling in
each field manually.

 

Back when we used another email system, I would sometimes just 'bounce' them
-- then the proper headers would be preserved and the message would appear
to come from the user, and they would get their account set up properly, get
all the correct auto-replies, etc.

 

But we use gmail now and it doesn't support bounces.

 

Just forwarding the message wouldn't preserve the proper headers -- it would
appear to be coming from the technician and then log it as if the technician
logged the ticket, with all the communication that should be going to the
end user being directed to the tech instead. That's no good.

 

I'm wondering if anyone has created a way to tackle this. Perhaps creating a
way to get OTRS to take the format of a forwarded message and somehow
extract the From, Subject, and Body appropriately and log the ticket that
way (not via the main helpdesk email, but perhaps a secondary one that IT
would use only for this purpose.... wouldn't want to extract the fields on a
regular message to the helpdesk that included a forwarded message).

 

-- 

Mary Hunter

Director of Information Technology

John F. Kennedy University

 

Phone: 925-969-3466

Fax: 925-969-3474

 

For IT assistance, please contact our Helpdesk at 925-969-3464 or
[email protected].

 

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