Viewing, recovering, and deleting suspended tickets

Some emails may be flagged as spam and be either completely rejected or sent to the suspended tickets queue, where they may be permanently deleted or recovered. The reasons why email is rejected or suspended are described in Causes for ticket suspension.

Admins and agents in custom roles with permission can view, recover, and delete suspended tickets. All unrecovered suspended tickets are automatically deleted after 14 days.

This article covers the following topics:

• Viewing suspended tickets
• Recovering or deleting suspended tickets
• Using export to analyze suspended tickets
• Light agent recovery of suspended comments with CCs

Related articles:

• Understanding and managing suspended tickets and spam
• Guidelines for reviewing suspended tickets

Viewing suspended tickets

Suspended tickets appear in your list of views as a system-generated view called Suspended tickets, as shown here:

Note: Agents with the Play views only permission can't access the Suspended tickets view. Additionally, to access the Suspended tickets view and all of the tickets in that view, you must have permission to view, recover, and delete suspended tickets. For Enterprise plans, this access is managed separately from access to non-suspended tickets. On Team and Professional plans, you must have permission to view all tickets.

Selecting the view allows you to manage the suspended tickets. You can view detailed information for each, including the reason for suspension, and then recover or delete them.

Agents with permission to access the Suspended tickets view can delete any tickets included in that view, even if ticket deletion is not enabled for them.

Recovering or deleting suspended tickets

Suspended tickets can be manually unsuspended and placed back into your ticket queue. You can unsuspend tickets in the Suspended tickets view one at a time or in bulk. You can also delete suspended tickets. See Guidelines for reviewing suspended tickets for recommendations.

To bulk recover or delete suspended tickets

1. Select the Suspended tickets view.
2. Select the tickets you want to recover or delete. You can select all the tickets in the view by clicking the selection check box in the table header.

   

   A toolbar appears at the bottom of the list.

3. Click either Recover or Delete, depending on what action you want to take.

The tickets you recover are unassigned and have a New status. They will appear in views that show unassigned tickets, such as Unassigned tickets. They will also be available by search. Deleted tickets are deleted permanently and can't be recovered.

To recover or delete a single ticket

1. Select the Suspended tickets view.
2. Click the Subject of the ticket you want to recover or delete.

   

3. Select Delete, Recover Manually, or Recover Automatically. The automatic recover option immediately recovers the ticket. The manual recover option allows you to edit the ticket properties first and then recover the ticket.
   Note: If you recover a ticket manually, the recovered ticket will function as a copy of the original ticket and will only pull a plain text version of the original email instead of the full HTML. The original ticket will remain in the Suspended tickets view.

In the standard agent interface, when you recover a suspended ticket for a new user (not a known user in your account), an unverified new user account is created, and you are listed as the submitting agent in the via field. See example below. In the Zendesk Agent Workspace, your name is not listed as the submitting agent, instead the via field is typically shown as System or Email.

Using export to analyze suspended tickets

If you have a large number of suspended tickets, you can export the list to a CSV file for further analysis. Exporting the suspended ticket list lets you use your own spreadsheet software to sort, filter, and view all your suspended tickets in a single page.

The exported list also provides additional columns of data about the tickets that aren’t visible in the Suspended tickets view. This can be helpful when investigating tickets. For example, you can export the suspended ticket list to obtain the suspension Cause ID for each ticket. Then, cross-reference the cause ID with the Cause of suspension reference.

The export feature gives visibility into the types of tickets you receive and helps identify patterns when managing suspended tickets.

See Guidelines for reviewing suspended tickets for tips on reviewing your suspended tickets regularly.

To export the suspended ticket list

1. Select the Suspended tickets view.
2. Click Export CSV in the upper-right corner.

You'll receive an email notification containing a download link for your CSV file. The email is sent to your primary email account in your user profile.

Light agent recovery of suspended comments with CCs

You can recover a suspended comment that includes CCs and followers just like any other comment. However, it’s important to note that the behavior with light agents is slightly different when CCs are involved. If a light agent recovers a suspended comment, CCs from the last end user email reply will not be added to the ticket. This is because light agents can't add or remove CCs from tickets.

If your company uses CCs and light agents, ask your admin whether your company has an internal policy or best practice that says light agents do not recover suspended tickets.