Help on queues management (I think?)

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Help on queues management (I think?)

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Hi folks,

We have a new installation of OTRS 3.3.8 running on Debian. Reading the manual and checking some forums we were able to configure most of the things like users/groups/queues/etc...

But now we're running into an issue....I'll describe some facts now:

1 - We have multiple clients for each of them has their own queues (as we have into de old ticketing system)
2 - For each queue there's an email address formated like customer@ourdomain.com

So each time a customers opens a ticket, it goes into the right queue. However we want to do is filter how this works as follows:

The problem is:

Only authorized users can create a ticket into their company queue and if you're not on the list you should receive a rejected email confirmation. Right now everybody who knows the queue's email address is able to create tickets.

How should we controll that?

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Help on queues management (I think?)

Post by stjuanchurchservices »

Hi Papaez / everyone.

My 3.3.8 otrs version has recently been installed, and have been trying to figure out how to do the same distribution for our internal vendors and "customers".
I would really appreciate you share any news if you are able to solve it or if anyone else can help us out.

I have already checked on Google and some quick searches on OTRS forums...hope we can get help here :)

Sincerely,

Donnie.
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Re: Help on queues management (I think?)

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I believe it's related to this article viewtopic.php?f=60&t=6586

But that is from an old version, not sure how to do it in the 3.3.8 version.

Still hoping an answer from the gurus :)

Regards,
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Re: Help on queues management (I think?)

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Hi,
this topic is interesting and I didn't notice viewtopic.php?f=60&t=6586 before.
I applied it (at least the first very simple customization suggested by crythias) on my 3.3.5 version (and I guess that for 3.3.8 is the same) and it works as expected.
However when the system receives an e-mail from a customer that is not in the db in the log I find also another message like the following:

IMAP: Can't process mail, see log sub system (/opt/otrs/var/spool/problem-email-xxxxxx, report it on http://bugs.otrs.org/)!

So it seems that breaking the NewTicket.pm processing with a 'return' right after if ( !$GetParam{'X-OTRS-CustomerUser'} ) statement, doesn't let the email to be processed correctly.
I do not know if this side effect can be avoided.
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Re: Help on queues management (I think?)

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Ok, we tried that and it worked. However maintaining this filters in our scenario is quite complex. Is there any other way?

Like; only authorized users can create a ticket in one queue (and no other)?

Thanks!
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papaez wrote:Only authorized users can create a ticket into their company queue
Don't use customer based queues.
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Ok, that's a suggestion, not a tool limitation. What if I have 15 customers, and each of them will interact with my company (that provides support to them) through a Distribution List and behind that DL there's a 10 member helpdesk?
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What if I have 15 customers, and each of them will interact with my company (that provides support to them) through a Distribution List and behind that DL there's a 10 member helpdesk?
Assuming that CustomerA logs in as CompanyAHelpdeskDL@CompanyA.com ... what do you want to happen?
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