Re: Management Decisions (Was: Re: Email based trouble ticketing system)

2005-09-14 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sep 14 at 6:59am, Travis Roy wrote: What I'm hoping to do is setup something in tandem where mail gets delivered to the new server and gets passed on to imail, then when I'm ready I can just "flip a switch". To improve upon that idea: After testing and everything, put the new, better sys

RE: Management Decisions (Was: Re: Email based trouble ticketing system)

2005-09-14 Thread Brian
RUN! > -Original Message- > When we upgraded to the newest version of imail they changed > the webmail interface and we went through weeks of "but this > is different". > > What I'm hoping to do is setup something in tandem where mail > gets delivered to the new server and gets passed

Management Decisions (Was: Re: Email based trouble ticketing system)

2005-09-14 Thread Travis Roy
Hah, you say those things like we have a linux mail server. Sadly, we use Ipswitch Imail (I know, I know) It sounds to me like your poor mail server is costing your company lots of money. Down 50 times and customer communication keeps getting screwed up - put a number next to that. Then p

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2005, at 17:51, Travis Roy wrote: That should be possible based on the subject and header information. I believe there have been some RT ad-ons that attempt to do the subject line thing, but it's discouraged. As Ben said, what do you do with "Re: help!" when you have 20 of them i

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sep 13 at 5:51pm, Travis Roy wrote: So, you want a ticketing system that knows that an e-mail that wasn't sent through it, where the essential identifying information has been changed, is part of a particular ticket? Maybe I missed something. That should be possible based on the subject and

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Travis Roy
So, you want a ticketing system that knows that an e-mail that wasn't sent through it, where the essential identifying information has been changed, is part of a particular ticket? Maybe I missed something. That should be possible based on the subject and header information. You need to p

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Bruce Dawson
In the past, I've had success with GNATS (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/). So far as I know, the clients haven't had a need to upgrade to later versions. It works with email and web based submissions. --Bruce Travis Roy wrote: Does anybody know of a good email based trouble ticketing sy

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2005, at 17:19, Travis Roy wrote: The way the system is setup support emails go to each tech, and to the ticketing system. The boss (and others in my group) are replying to the emails sent to them, not through the ticketing system. This is causing a problem. I can not get him to c

RE: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Brian
You could use the one I wrote at my last company, but it would be easier to just adapt RT accordingly, rather than start all anew. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Roy > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:44 PM > To: GNHLUG m

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread dbunker
Actually you can have replies to tickets in request tracker be added to the appropriate ticket, and have emails for new tickets create a new ticket. We use it here and that is the behavior we have. Dan Tr

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Travis Roy
We currently use Request Tracker, but it has some limitation. One is that when you reply to a customer if you don't do it within the ticketing system it usually generates another ticket.. And when our CTO does most of his stuff via his blackberry now, that's a lot of tickets. Are your head

Re: Email based trouble ticketing system

2005-09-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2005, at 16:43, Travis Roy wrote: We currently use Request Tracker, but it has some limitation. One is that when you reply to a customer if you don't do it within the ticketing system it usually generates another ticket.. And when our CTO does most of his stuff via his blackberry no