Attach to master ticket and send the master ticket.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Not quite true David, like I commented, try enabling SearchInReferences.
>
> I have. It still misses fairly frequently (at least for us), which is why
> I didn't mention it. But, that may be a function of our customer base often
> having very old MUA/MTAs that don't reliably implement a lot of the newer
> mail headers in consistently useful ways. We have to have a 100% solution.
>
> SearchInReferences relies a lot on things out of your control (eg the
> algorithm that generates message ids at the sending MTA). It's a partial
> solution, but not a complete one.  It also doesn't really address the race
> conditions of multiple agents dropping into the same folder from different
> customers.
>
> Maybe a better approach would be to write something that you use to post
> process a private folder for each agent on an IMAP server (eg, dump a copy
> of all the related messages into a subfolder, then run a separate app that
> opened a OTRS ticket, iterated through the folder items posting them to
> that ticket # and deleting them from the folder).  All further
> correspondence is then done via OTRS (key point -- otherwise your
> statistics are going to get progressively more useless over time because
> OTRS can't measure response times, etc for stuff submitted this way).
>
> That should be fairly easy to write with the Perl IMAP library and the
> Perl SOAP library, and would be fairly easily to make work against any IMAP
> server implementation. Could be fairly easily batched if you used
> subfolders for each group of messages (schedule it in cron or something).
>
>
>
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