Re: [rt-users] automatically linking tickets together

2013-11-14 Thread Tony Arnold
Piet,

On 14/11/13 10:10, Piet Honkoop wrote:

 central RT4 ticketing system with a number of customers with own (other)
 trouble ticket systems.
 Many of those misbehave by sending too many mails where they molest the
 subject in order to insert their own ticket id.
 
 What I want to do is based on their ticket id link those emails to the
 initially created ticket within RT.
 
 What is the best way to do that given that the incoming mail does not
 necessarily have an RT ticket number in the subject?

We have a similar problem. In our case the ticket number is usually in
the body of the e-mail, so perhaps picking that up is the way to go.
I've no idea how to implement that though!

Regards,
Tony.
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Re: [rt-users] automatically linking tickets together

2013-11-14 Thread Tom Lahti
Custom code; this is one of the reasons the REST interface exists.  With
it you can do anything.

Have the mail transport deliver the email to a script that parses the
mail and executes some REST calls, either directly or through a library.

See the bottom of the page http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/REST for
a list of libraries you can use.



 Piet,

 On 14/11/13 10:10, Piet Honkoop wrote:

 central RT4 ticketing system with a number of customers with own (other)
 trouble ticket systems.
 Many of those misbehave by sending too many mails where they molest the
 subject in order to insert their own ticket id.

 What I want to do is based on their ticket id link those emails to the
 initially created ticket within RT.

 What is the best way to do that given that the incoming mail does not
 necessarily have an RT ticket number in the subject?
 We have a similar problem. In our case the ticket number is usually in
 the body of the e-mail, so perhaps picking that up is the way to go.
 I've no idea how to implement that though!

 Regards,
 Tony.



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Re: [rt-users] automatically linking tickets together

2013-11-14 Thread Ram
The RT Ticket number is always in a mail-header most folks don't see.

This scrip is just about exactly what you need:
http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/BounceMerge



From: Piet Honkoop p...@softcontrol.nl

 Hi,

 Starting situation:

 central RT4 ticketing system with a number of customers with own (other)
 trouble ticket systems.
 Many of those misbehave by sending too many mails where they molest the
 subject in order to insert their own ticket id.

 What I want to do is based on their ticket id link those emails to the
 initially created ticket within RT.

 What is the best way to do that given that the incoming mail does not
 necessarily have an RT ticket number in the subject?