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Email-to should be automated

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  • June 25, 2024
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This ticket is similar to this request, I’m really just pointing out that this can’t be done with Worklows either.

In my company, we often have dedicated support emails per client.
Tickets that go to support+clientName@mycompany.com should be associated with the correct client.

My dream solution would be to parse clientName in such a way that I could attribute it to the right company, without creating a branch for each client (because that would require maintainance for every client that is added/removed).

 

Here are some obstacles / related issues

  • It would have been nice if the email-to address was visible as a field in the UI, with the ability to add it as a column or filter on it.

     

  • Allow conversations to be assigned to Companies (which means I need a custom field to replace “Company”
  • Allow this field to be use in Filters.


At present, if I want to achieve something like this for 200 clients, I have to create a workflow with 200 branches.

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Jennifer K
Intercom Team
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  • Intercom Team
  • July 2, 2024

Hi @Ben Hizak 

Jennifer here from Intercom 

Is there a reason you don't want to add ‘Email To’ to your audience rules?



 


Jennifer K
Intercom Team
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  • Intercom Team
  • July 2, 2024
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  • Active User
  • July 2, 2024

Hi Jennifer,

  • Please could you see if you agree that this field is not visible anywhere in the Helpdesk User Interface?
  • Please could you read the request which I linked to?
  • I don’t know if I expressed myself well, but if I have 100 clients writing to support+clientname@mycompany.com, then I need to have 100 branches to my plan.

Thank you
 


aykut.aydin
Employee
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  • Customer Support Engineer
  • July 11, 2024

Hey @Ben Hizak 

 

Thanks for the reply!

  • Please could you see if you agree that this field is not visible anywhere in the Helpdesk User Interface?

Yes, I can confirm that this field cannot be used in the UI to filter conversations like you also mentioned.

 

It is only shown inside the Conversation itself, but it cannot be added in the list view like you also said.

 

 

  • Please could you read the request which I linked to?

If the email-to was available in our API, I would recommend using our Webhooks and REST API sources to automate this programmatically, but like it’s mentioned in the request you linked to, this is still not available at the moment. I will actually go ahead and submit an internal request regarding this again. Hopefully our team can consider adding this data in API in the future releases.

 

  • I don’t know if I expressed myself well, but if I have 100 clients writing to support+clientname@mycompany.com, then I need to have 100 branches to my plan.

Yes, in this scenario you would need to create many branches to assign the conversation to a specific team, which would be quite hard with 100-200 different email to addresses.

 

I think you provided detailed information regarding your use-case above already. It would be great to have an option to set rules that can set the value of attributes dynamically without having to set static values based on 100s of if statements (branches).

 

Thanks again for all the context you provided here!