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giftculture
12-05-2007, 06:43 PM
Cerberus 3.x displays some idiosyncratic behavior with regards to forwarding out of the ticketing system. Ideally, I'd like to see it fixed but if not, I'd like to submit a feature request for 4.x.

Basically, there should be an option for forwards out of the ticketing system to behave in the same way that forwards through email behave, ie, if Jane (for instance) cc's me on an email or sends me an email with several users in the cc: header and I forward that email to, say Joe, the email that Joe receives lists only my address on the To: and Reply-To: headers. If Joe replies to that email, only I get a copy of it.

Cerberus 3.x gives conflicting information about forwards from the ticketing system. If I forward a ticket to Joe (for instance), the entry added to that ticket for the forward indicates that the reply-to for that forward is set to my agent email address (as expected) but the actual email Joe receives lists the queue address as the reply-to, which means that when Joe replies to the forward, it goes back into the queue as a normal reply, which means the reply goes back to the ticket originator.

This behavior has caused a lot of heartache for me at our job, causing things like internal comments to go back to customers and more seriously, for vendor and customer information to get crossed. The first issue is merely embarrassing - the second issue is absolutely deadly and a deal-breaker for our business. Since we are a reseller, the fact that vendor information is exposed to customers and vice-versa means that they can bypass us completely. I know for a fact that I'm not the only user of your ticketing software that has been bitten by this unexpected (and in my opinion, seriously broken) behavior.

I have been very disappointed with the level of support that I have received on this issue as a paying customer and would like to hope that this can be rectified in a satisfactory manner.

giftculture
12-05-2007, 06:50 PM
This has been submitted as feature request (CHD-367) though it seems more like a bug for me

jstanden
12-06-2007, 06:10 AM
Hey giftculture,

I've assigned CHD-367 to myself. I completely agree with the problems posed by forwarded messages returning to the helpdesk.

In Cerb4, forwarded messages shouldn't be cloning the Message-Id of the original message, so a reply to a forwarded message shouldn't thread to the original ticket.

I'll test this to make sure it's behaving as expected.

The way Cerb4 threads messages is entirely different.

joegeck
08-13-2008, 12:01 AM
Hey giftculture,

As you may have noticed if you're watching this issue in JIRA, CHD-367, was resolved as 'cannot reproduce'. After fabiotpr informed us this was no longer occurring in another forum thread, I tried to reproduce this off the dev branch (fabiotpr verified it in stable). Initial tests proved him right. So to be clear if a "customer" replies to a forward from the Helpdesk, the original sender (requester) does NOT receive the reply. This was the original request and should be satisfactory now.

As I stated on the CHD-367 page in JIRA, if anyone sees the old undesired behavior still occurring in newer versions of the Helpdesk, please let us know here in the forums. And by new I'm going to guess builds 670+ in either stable or dev. The reason I'm throwing this out there is because a "fix" was never directly implemented by the developers to my knowledge. As fabiotpr pointed out, the tracking page said this issue was still OPEN on the wishlist but he isn't able to reproduce it anymore. Therefore there's a good chance this undesired behavior is still lurking around. If you find anything post here in the forums or at the issue's tracking page:

http://www.wgmdev.com/jira/browse/CHD-367

Thanks.