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Enable Support form to Communicate with RT APIs, investigate external tool for Support Form

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Feature: Notifications Type: Feature User Role: Superuser Vote to Close: pdurbin
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Description

The support form at dataverse.harvard.edu currently relays messages in a way that is running afoul of spam filters by using the user’s email as the return address and with mismatched domain headers. We can expect that other installations may run into this as well. We should investigate a configuration that allows the support form to communicate with support ticketing systems via API or some other method instead of generating an email with mismatched headers. For this first iteration I’m interested in setting up something with RT:

https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker
https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/REST#Java
https://docs.opennms.org/opennms/releases/27.1.0/javadoc/org/opennms/netmgt/rt/RequestTracker.html

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Research direction

Start with the support form behavior described in the issue and review the linked Request Tracker REST and Java references. Define an API-based configuration that avoids mismatched email headers and verify how it would work across installations.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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