On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:20:57AM -0700, Josh Tackitt wrote:
> Is there any possibility of routing emails to an existing ticket by 
> including the ticket # in the email address?  Something like, 
> "[email protected]" that would treat emails sent to that address the 
> same as if they included the rt ticket # in the subject.

This is what the "--extension ticket" argument for rt-mailgate is for
http://bestpractical.com/docs/rt/latest/rt-mailgate.html#extension-OPTIONAL

It's up to your MTA to set the environment variable $EXTENSION when
dealing with a +addressed mail, but most do so automagically.

People use this both to support [email protected] as well as
[email protected], the latter requires more MTA shenanigans than
the former.

-kevin


> Here's the scenario I have in mind:
> 
> -An RT ticket exists.
> -We need to provide an email address to a vendor and would like their 
> emails to automatically be associated with the existing ticket.
> -Currently, if we give them "[email protected]" then every time they email us 
> a new ticket is generated and must be merged.
> -However, if we could give them an email address that includes the 
> ticket number then all their replies would be part of the existing ticket.

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