It is now possible to open tickets from the command line if you're a bugadmin. First, get an RT CLI account; see the wiki for details. Then:
rt create -e -t ticket set subject='Testing new ticket' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Queue=parrot Will pop you into an editor. Add your text message at the end (any continuation lines must begin with whitespace.) Once you're done editing, save & quit, the ticket will be generated, and you'll get your ticket number, which you can then pass to other rt invocations. Regards.