Mail module introduction
Module is used by clients who have in one installation over 300 mailbox and thousands of mails imported per day.
Don't forget to setup cronjobs just.
How to upgrade to mail version
As this module is a standard Live Helper Chat module just use default upgrade workflow
Do I have to user mail module in order to use chat module?
No
What is a minimal things I have todo to have mails imported?
- In
Settings -> Mail conversations -> Mailbox
setup a new mailbox- Enter
Login options
- In
Mailbox
tab clickGet mailbox to sync
and choose what IMAP folder you want to sync.Choose what mailbox you want to sync
E.g for sync folders{mail.livehelperchat.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX
AND{mail.livehelperchat.com:993/imap/ssl}Sent
Choose where deleted e-mails should be moved
E.g{mail.livehelperchat.com:993/imap/ssl}Trash
Choose a send folder
E.g{mail.livehelperchat.com:993/imap/ssl}Sent
- Define a
Matching Rule
inSettings -> Mail conversation -> Matching rules
These rules defines to what department e-mails should go from specific mailbox. - If you do not see a sent e-mails in the mail ticket once you reply you have to choose in mailbox
Options
aCreate a copy in a send folder.
. Then once you send e-mail from LHC it's copy will be created in a sent folder and imported afterward.
- Enter
- Setup cronjob which will fetch e-mails
- Boilerplate sampel for all cronjobs Boilerplate cronjobs
- Just mail sync cronjob, you can run it manually first time.
- If your mailbox import takes long time or you have many mailbox you can decrease frequency how frequent that cronjob is run.
- Best performance is reached if php-resque extension is used.
What is a general flow of mail tickets?
- Once new mail arrives, it arrives as New
- Open Reply ticket becomes Closed
- If new mail arrives, ticket is reopened. To create a new ticket or reopen old is controlled by
Timeout in days after last response before we create a new issue
from mailboxOptions
section. - In dashboard, you can choose what widgets you want to see. There are these new widgets.
- My active and new mails
- Active mails
- New mails
- Mail queue alarm