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#22342 REPLY from ticket submitter not working

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Latest post by tampe125 on Thursday, 26 March 2015 11:45 CDT

rocklandusa
I have all of the features of the Akeeba Ticket System Pro working EXCEPT when I use the reply by email feature.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. User submits a ticket to [email protected]
2. Cron job runs every 5 minutes successfully and processes the tickets as stated.
3. I have the System - Akeeba Ticket System reply by email DISABLED.
4. I as the administrator reply to the ticket to gain more information from the submitter of the original ticket.
5. Original submitter of the ticket receives a reply. The email states to reply above the line with a reply. This is done and the email is sent back. Using Gmail as the email program for this.
6. The reply never shows us in the ticket system as part of the conversation.

Is there a setting somewhere for this to work? Can replies only happen on the website interface and not through email? Like I said, I have the entire program working as stated except for the conversation replies in via email.

Thank you for your time.

rocklandusa
Just as a followup I do the REPLY BY EMAIL selected as well as CREATE TICKET BY EMAIL. I noticed a developer version 1.6.2. I have not tested that as of yet.

Attached is the REPLY BY EMAIL settings.

rocklandusa
Okay, now I am confused. I figured out why this is happening. The emails are being sent out SMTP from the settings in the Global Configuration under Server which happens to be [email protected].

Where in the Ticket System do I change the SMTP settings or the FROM address which was [email protected] that overrides the Global Configuration?

This would solve the issue.

Thanks

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello Craig,

system emails are sent using the email settings saved inside Joomla Global Configuration, as per Joomla standard.
You can't have a different email settings for ATS

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

rocklandusa
I understand the Joomla standard. Please explain to me how there can be a feature of REPLY BY EMAIL if we can set up multiple email accounts for various departments to handle support tickets and the system will track the conversation, BUT all replies from the software are coming from one email account. Unless the ticket submtter re-enters the support email address the replies are lost.

The REPLY BY EMAIL system you market as a feature cannot keep track of the conversations cannot work without the ability of the ticket submitter to simply hit 'REPLY' and 'TYPE ABOVE THIS LINE'.

What is the solution for this to make it work? I cannot find anything in the documentation as a warning or info box stating that replies from customers will be going directly to the email address setup in the Joomla configuration.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Thank you Craig for your feedback, you just helped us to uncover a bug!
There was an issue while sending out emails, the required "Reply-To" header was missing. This means that before you always have to reply to the site address, while now emails are sent by the site address, but the user will reply to the category email address.

Can you please download the latest dev release and try again?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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