OTRS & Email Settings

Good morning, first off let me thank you guys in advance, OTRS is a great system and so far it has done wonders for this three man IT Department supporting over 100 users world wide for a non-profit organization. As our organization grows and our needs become more complex the need for automation continues to rise. So there are three things I would like guidance on doing. Any good step-by-step documentation to assist with these three things (assuming they are possible) would be great. 1) Checking for emails automatically, I can go under the mail setting and click "run" and it downloads my support emails. I need to automate this process but can't seem to figure it out. 2) Sending out an auto-response. I can't seem to get it to work to where when I create a ticket it sends an auto-response email letting the person who submitted the ticket know that a ticket was created. 3) The Escalation process -- if a ticket is created via email, can I have it initially send notification to three people and then if there isn't a response have it send an escalation email to supervisors? Thank you again for your advice and guidance. Best Wishes, Steve Anness

Hi Steve,
I'm glad you like the software!
1. It looks like you've not set up the cron jobs yet. By default, any
configured mailboxes should be polled every 10 minutes. [
http://doc.otrs.org/2.4/en/html/x531.html#cronjobs]
2. If people send mail in, and you want them to receive an acknowledgement:
go to Admin > Auto Responses and create a response of type "Auto Reply".
Then, tie that to your Queue under Auto Responses <> Queues.
3. To implement this, just put in a regular escalation (either queue based,
or SLA based, which would be a little bit more complex). Now, define a queue
and subscribe the 'manager' people to that. Create a GenericAgent job via
Admin > GenericAgent that pushes tickets to this new 'escalated' queue if
the ticket SLA time has passed.
HTH,
Michiel
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Steve Anness
Good morning,
first off let me thank you guys in advance, OTRS is a great system and so far it has done wonders for this three man IT Department supporting over 100 users world wide for a non-profit organization. As our organization grows and our needs become more complex the need for automation continues to rise. So there are three things I would like guidance on doing. Any good step-by-step documentation to assist with these three things (assuming they are possible) would be great.
1) Checking for emails automatically, I can go under the mail setting and click "run" and it downloads my support emails. I need to automate this process but can't seem to figure it out. 2) Sending out an auto-response. I can't seem to get it to work to where when I create a ticket it sends an auto-response email letting the person who submitted the ticket know that a ticket was created. 3) The Escalation process -- if a ticket is created via email, can I have it initially send notification to three people and then if there isn't a response have it send an escalation email to supervisors?
Thank you again for your advice and guidance.
Best Wishes,
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I had a similar problem, I've checked cronjobs, and I think all is OK,
but messages are not automatically polled from the configured mail
box, but manually it works perfect by pressing on "Run Now!" from
PostMaster Mail Account management
/opt/otrs/var/cron# crontab -l -u otrs
shows:
# fetch emails every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * $HOME/bin/PostMasterMailbox.pl >> /dev/null
What else I must check?
Thanks
Alfredo
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Michiel Beijen
Hi Steve,
I'm glad you like the software!
1. It looks like you've not set up the cron jobs yet. By default, any configured mailboxes should be polled every 10 minutes. [http://doc.otrs.org/2.4/en/html/x531.html#cronjobs]
2. If people send mail in, and you want them to receive an acknowledgement: go to Admin > Auto Responses and create a response of type "Auto Reply". Then, tie that to your Queue under Auto Responses <> Queues.
3. To implement this, just put in a regular escalation (either queue based, or SLA based, which would be a little bit more complex). Now, define a queue and subscribe the 'manager' people to that. Create a GenericAgent job via Admin > GenericAgent that pushes tickets to this new 'escalated' queue if the ticket SLA time has passed.
HTH,
Michiel
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Steve Anness
wrote: Good morning,
first off let me thank you guys in advance, OTRS is a great system and so far it has done wonders for this three man IT Department supporting over 100 users world wide for a non-profit organization. As our organization grows and our needs become more complex the need for automation continues to rise. So there are three things I would like guidance on doing. Any good step-by-step documentation to assist with these three things (assuming they are possible) would be great.
1) Checking for emails automatically, I can go under the mail setting and click "run" and it downloads my support emails. I need to automate this process but can't seem to figure it out. 2) Sending out an auto-response. I can't seem to get it to work to where when I create a ticket it sends an auto-response email letting the person who submitted the ticket know that a ticket was created. 3) The Escalation process -- if a ticket is created via email, can I have it initially send notification to three people and then if there isn't a response have it send an escalation email to supervisors?
Thank you again for your advice and guidance.
Best Wishes,
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Try to see if $HOME is set for user otrs.
something like
su - otrs -c echo $HOME
or
su - otrs -c $HOME/bin/PostMasterMailbox.pl -d 3
and try to watch either cron.log or system messages
HTH
MV
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Alfredo Frugone
I had a similar problem, I've checked cronjobs, and I think all is OK, but messages are not automatically polled from the configured mail box, but manually it works perfect by pressing on "Run Now!" from PostMaster Mail Account management
/opt/otrs/var/cron# crontab -l -u otrs shows: # fetch emails every 10 minutes */10 * * * * $HOME/bin/PostMasterMailbox.pl >> /dev/null
What else I must check?
Thanks Alfredo
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Michiel Beijen
wrote: Hi Steve,
I'm glad you like the software!
1. It looks like you've not set up the cron jobs yet. By default, any
configured mailboxes should be polled every 10 minutes. [ http://doc.otrs.org/2.4/en/html/x531.html#cronjobs]
2. If people send mail in, and you want them to receive an
acknowledgement: go to Admin > Auto Responses and create a response of type "Auto Reply". Then, tie that to your Queue under Auto Responses <> Queues.
3. To implement this, just put in a regular escalation (either queue
based, or SLA based, which would be a little bit more complex). Now, define a queue and subscribe the 'manager' people to that. Create a GenericAgent job via Admin > GenericAgent that pushes tickets to this new 'escalated' queue if the ticket SLA time has passed.
HTH,
Michiel
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Steve Anness
wrote:
Good morning,
first off let me thank you guys in advance, OTRS is a great system and
so far it has done wonders for this three man IT Department supporting over 100 users world wide for a non-profit organization. As our organization grows and our needs become more complex the need for automation continues to rise. So there are three things I would like guidance on doing. Any good step-by-step documentation to assist with these three things (assuming they are possible) would be great.
1) Checking for emails automatically, I can go under the mail setting
and click "run" and it downloads my support emails. I need to automate this process but can't seem to figure it out.
2) Sending out an auto-response. I can't seem to get it to work to where when I create a ticket it sends an auto-response email letting the person who submitted the ticket know that a ticket was created. 3) The Escalation process -- if a ticket is created via email, can I have it initially send notification to three people and then if there isn't a response have it send an escalation email to supervisors?
Thank you again for your advice and guidance.
Best Wishes,
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participants (4)
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Alfredo Frugone
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Marco Vannini
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Michiel Beijen
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Steve Anness