On 05/05/2011 06:08 AM, Matti Taina wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I tried googling for this for a while, so I hope it's not something as > trivial as R'ing TFM. > > What could be the cause for RT not sending email when replying to a ticket? > What happened is, that a helpdesk person was trying to reply to a ticket > several times, but only on their third try RT sent out the actual email > message and printed "Outgoing email recorded" on the ticket history. The > first two trys only resulted in the correspondence entry being printed on the > ticket history, but no email was sent and no message of outgoing email was > printed. The helpdesk person says that every try was identical and no changes > were made on the reply page, other than a change in ticket status (between > stalled and open). > The RT version is 3.8.8.
Look in your RT server logs for errors, and possibly your mail logs as well. In some cases the machine is too overloaded and RT can't start sendmail. Newer versions of RT report on the ticket when sending mail failed. Thomas
