@Steven, thanks for the tip. set it to "yes" this morning and it's working
beautifully.
@David, i don't have any concerns about the "other" agents doing crazy
things as it's only for my sysadmin team, we are using it slightly
unconventionally, our support wont be using it like i mentioned previously,
only us.

thank you both.

Neil

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Young <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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