[rt-users] Email access to existing tickets

[Edward Speyer]

Hello list!

I've just configured my first RT setup (3.4.4) and setup the mail
gateway.  Yay!  It is amazing and *exactly* what I needed to handle
incoming support requests :)

I've configured my RT so that previously unknown customers can email my
support address and a new ticket will be generated for them.

I didn't want them to be able to fiddle with other customers tickets
though (by changing the number in the Subject: header), so I set up the
following global group rights:

  System group "Everyone" can "CreateTicket"
  System group "Everyone" can "SeeQueue"
  Role "Cc" can "ReplyToTicket"
  Role "Requestor" can "ReplyToTicket"

as well as:

  User defined group "Qube Employees" can do almost everything!
  User defined group "Qube RT Admins" can do everything!

This is great: existing customers can correspond on existing tickets,
but only if their "From" matches the "Requestor".

However, I have the inevitable problem that customers try to email about
an existing ticket using a different email address to the one they
original wrote in with.  (e.g. they write in with their home address,
but followup with their work address.)

When they do so, they get a reply to their followup-email saying
"Permission Denied", and their corrspondence is not added to the ticket.

I'd much prefer it if these emails could end up in a queue somewhere
where they could be manually inspected, with the aim to adding the
second address in as a "Cc" on the original ticket[1].

Could I implement such functionality myself?  As a Scrip, or by patching
the source?  Or maybe there's a non-patching way of writing this in
Perl?  Advice would be most gratefully received :)

Thanks :)

Ed

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Edward Speyer

[1] It would be quite nice actually if users in the ACL system could
have more than one email address assigned to them, so that Joe Bloggs
could write in with either joe.bloggs at work.com or jbloggs at gmail.com, but
that's more of a feature request :)