Help Desk Mail-in Server
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Who uses LBE Helpdesk Mail-in Server?
Your end-users:
- Create new Jobs
- Update their existing Jobs
- Get the current status of their Job
Your helpdesk operators:
- Update any existing Jobs
- Get the current status of a Job
How does it work?:
- It check an email address for helpdesk related emails
- Based on the email subject, it automatically updates the
helpdesk
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All you have to do is leave LBE Helpdesk Mail-in Server running
on a single machine and tell it to regularly check the mailbox.
The mail-in server will regularly check the specified email address,
and try to process any emails it finds to create/update/get the
status of helpdesk Jobs.
Installation
Run the setup in the downloaded
zip file.
Requirements
You must be using either LBE Desktop
Help Desk Software or LBE Web Help
desk software.
On the machine that you are running the Mail-in server, you must
be able to access an SMTP server (for sending emails) and a POP3/IMAP
server (for receiving emails) or have MS Outlook (98 or later -
Outlook Express is not sufficient) installed as a mail client. The
mail client must be set up to the e-mail address your end-users
will be sending helpdesk messages to.
If you want the Mail-in server to process mail attachments and
link them to Jobs, you must have specified a default directory for
Linked files using either the Web or Desktop Helpdesk.
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