[rt-users] Single queue with "no-return-mail" policy?

Todd Chapman todd at chaka.net
Sat Aug 5 16:16:21 EDT 2006


On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:25:07PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:
> Greetings again, fellow RT-Users... I have what I think should be a simple
> issue, but I've not been able to find a concrete example..
> 
> The way that RT sends out e-mail on ticket opening is perfect for every
> application that we have, save one.
> 
> I would like to feed nagios alerts into RT.  Not a problem so-far, right?
> 
> The issue is that the "From:" on the nagios alerts is our NOC mail address
> and I'm not able to change that (people often reply to Nagios alerts alerting
> other NOC employees of what is going on, etc).
> 
> I'd like to set the queue that gets the Nagios alerts to NOT send back "a
> ticket has been opened" messages.  On the other hand, I don't want to have to
> individually set all the other queues to fire the scrip that sends out
> "ticket open" mail (ie, no change to the global scrip pool).
> 
> So... if I create a scrip for the "Nagios" queue that does NOT send e-mail on
> ticket creation, does that over-ride the global scrip, or do both of them
> fire?
> 
> I've considered using a procmail recipe to run formail and change the
> incoming headers before RT gets ahold of it, but to avoid complexity,
> I'd rather just do it all in RT.
> 
> Any hints?
> 

I believe Dirk Pape has an extension to disable a global scrip
per-queue. But what I would do is take the pre-defined scrip
and change it to a user defined condition that checks the queue.

-Todd



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