The case is

1. Customer sends an email to t...@test.com
2. Test is alias, so when mail comes, the agents in the alias will get the
mail. And OTRS will also get email. OTRS will update agents that ticket
arrived.
3. The agent will respond back via email to customer, [may manually add
customer emails,] 
4. The response should reach to customer
5. The same response[ as it has ticket id], should be updated in OTRS.
6. If customer responds again [ as it has ticket id], it should get updated
in OTRS and [if has other mail ids, should reach to them also.]



-----Original Message-----
From: otrs-boun...@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-boun...@otrs.org] On Behalf Of
Steven Carr
Sent: 06 March 2013 PM 04:11
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: Re: [otrs] Ticket update and reply via mail only

But that's not what he asked...

"via email client, to any clients or others"

So he wants the response sent from the agent (via email) to then be emailed
out to the client/customer. OTRS "free" does not do this. It will update the
case but the actual client/customer will be none the wiser that the case has
actually been updated.

Yes you could CC the customer in the email but then it really kinda makes
the whole point of using a ticketing system moot. I personally would not
want agents using their email to reply to a ticket, it might be more
efficient but it's sloppy and can easily lead to silly responses being sent
to customers, and if they are a field type of engineer they will already
have 101 other emails to deal with. If they have to be sat in-front of the
OTRS interface it focuses them on the content/response they are actually
sending back to the customer and instructs the agent to deal with things
according to your SLA (if implemented), and I'd rather have that level of
quality over speed of hitting reply.

Steve



On 6 March 2013 10:26, Susan Dittmar <s.ditt...@eureca.de> wrote:
> Steven Carr schrieb:
>
>> The "free" version doesn't support this. Agents have to reply via the 
>> web interface.
>
>
> That's not entirely true. Agents *can* reply via mail client, but then 
> OTRS thinks it's a customer's answer. This "customer"'s answer will be 
> added to the ticket as usual if the ticket number is kept intact.
>
> In fact, this is how about half of my agents use OTRS. The only time 
> they actually use OTRS's interface is when they want to lock, free, or 
> close a ticket or when they want to assign it to someone else. Most or 
> all those actions could be archieved by using OTRS's mail headers, so 
> even then the interface is not necessary. Unfortunately we are still 
> stuck with an OTRS version that's too old for those headers to work, 
> and with a mail client too dense to add truely custom header lines, so 
> I can't tell more about that part. They just needed to get used to 
> being informed about their own answer arriving, and not confusing 
> those notifications with true customer answers :-(.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>         Susan
>
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