[rt-users] RT and email bounces

2010-01-25 Thread L B
Hi all, When we send email to an address that doesn't exist, ie, that bounces, RT doesn't record the problem in the ticket. So we could be in a situation where we think that everyone knows about the ticket, but the email address was wrong in the CC list. Likewise we may be waiting for someone to

Re: [rt-users] RT and email bounces

2010-01-25 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 02:15:47PM +0100, L B wrote: Hi all, When we send email to an address that doesn't exist, ie, that bounces, RT doesn't record the problem in the ticket. So we could be in a situation where we think that everyone knows about the ticket, but the email address was wrong

Re: [rt-users] RT and email bounces

2010-01-25 Thread L B
I think it's difficult for bounced emails because there is no standard regarding this kind of emails, so it's hard to stop loops, but it should be easier for out of office messages. The problem is that, I think, we need to parse the email content to get a ticket number unless the out of office

Re: [rt-users] RT and email bounces

2010-01-25 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:19:40PM +0100, L B wrote: I think it's difficult for bounced emails because there is no standard regarding this kind of emails, so it's hard to stop loops, but it should be easier for out of office messages. The problem is that, I think, we need to parse the email

Re: [rt-users] RT and email bounces

2010-01-25 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 07:38:38AM -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: RT handles bounces by ignoring them to prevent loops as you suggested. It would be neat to have some error handling that would update the ticket with the message statuses without sending E-mail. You could disable bad addresses,

Re: [rt-users] RT and email bounces

2010-01-25 Thread Jerrad Pierce
See rtbouncehandler on the wiki. It works well, although it does double the amount of notices you receive for SPAM messages since they typically use bogus addresses which cannot receive auto-responses. -- Cambridge Energy Alliance: Save money. Save the planet.