emailed tickets not being tied to user

Hey folks, I am doing a "live customer trial" on my system by having a user this morning submit their request to IT into OTRS via email. I already have a user ID set up for that user, with their email address configured. And the email address on the incoming request is the same address. And the ticket got created properly and so forth, but it does not appear to have been created as being from her account. There is a "ghost" account (for lack of a better name) with the same email address. Recall that my users are all "Users" at that point and there are no "Customer Users" She goes into the web interface and does not see any ticket submitted by her. I go into ticket search and search "submitted by" and select her, but the ticket does not come up. Have I got something misconfigured? Or is this by design? Is there some way to make the system recognise that the email is from an address that is in the database, and is therefore from that user? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

Hi there,
You can map a ticket to a user, but that won´t solve your Problem. I don´t
know if the "Agents" should get send mails into your OTRS System, when they
have an Agent / User account where they can login and create any ticket in
the queue they are assigned to. So if you realy need to send your tickets
by mail, I think you´ll have to use customer user instead.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
Markus Moj
Technik
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From: Alan McKay

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:42 AM,
Hi there, You can map a ticket to a user, but that won´t solve your Problem. I don´t know if the "Agents" should get send mails into your OTRS System, when they have an Agent / User account where they can login and create any ticket in the queue they are assigned to. So if you realy need to send your tickets by mail, I think you´ll have to use customer user instead.
Ug. Well, I asked for input on this before rolling it out this way. Yes, they can log in and create any ticket themselves, but requiring them to do that is the surest way for this system not to get accepted. Is there no way to get it to recognise that the email came in from someone who is already in the database? Is there nobody out there doing things this way? When I asked for input last week or the week before it sounded like there was. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

Alan, is there a reason you can't set them up as customer users?
Thanks,
Savitra Sirohi
Nucsoft OSS labs
http://www.osslabs.biz
On 8/25/09, Alan McKay
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:42 AM,
wrote: Hi there, You can map a ticket to a user, but that won´t solve your Problem. I don´t know if the "Agents" should get send mails into your OTRS System, when they have an Agent / User account where they can login and create any ticket in the queue they are assigned to. So if you realy need to send your tickets by mail, I think you´ll have to use customer user instead.
Ug. Well, I asked for input on this before rolling it out this way.
Yes, they can log in and create any ticket themselves, but requiring them to do that is the surest way for this system not to get accepted.
Is there no way to get it to recognise that the email came in from someone who is already in the database?
Is there nobody out there doing things this way? When I asked for input last week or the week before it sounded like there was.
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:58 PM, savitra
sirohi
Alan, is there a reason you can't set them up as customer users?
They'll have tickets assigned to them as well. Not as many as my IT group, but there will eventually be tickets coming in from our external customers, that will eventually get assigned to one of these people. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

Alan,
In that case you can setup them as both. In Config.pm create a new
customer auth block pointing to your agent auth database.
Thanks,
Savitra Sirohi
Nucsoft OSS labs
http://www.osslabs.biz
On 8/26/09, Alan McKay
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:58 PM, savitra sirohi
wrote: Alan, is there a reason you can't set them up as customer users?
They'll have tickets assigned to them as well. Not as many as my IT group, but there will eventually be tickets coming in from our external customers, that will eventually get assigned to one of these people.
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