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How to remove the "External" from the subject

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Posted Feb 23, 2024

Hello everyone,

When users send e-mail to us outside our aplication, Zendesk add an "External" word in the subject, and this is blocking us to configure some triggers, because all "outside" e-mails that arrive with the "External". Zendesk recognize that the user's language is English, please, see below and example


Could someone help us to make Zendesk do not this anymore ?


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David

Zendesk Customer Care

Danilo, 

Jacob the Moderator is correct.  You can resolve this in the notification trigger.  Text or another placeholder get this taken care of for you 

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Heather Rommel

Zendesk LuminaryThe Product Manager Whisperer - 2021Community Moderator

Hi Danilo Moretti

I have a feeling this is actually in your IT's email configuration. This doesn't look like a Zendesk thing.

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Hi Heather,

Thanks for this feedback, this situation is very strange, because since we implemented Zendesk that we face this situation

If the user use the "Get Help" section inside our app, Zendesk receives the message with our standard subjects

But, if the user contact us by an external e-mail i.e. personal address, Zendesk turn on this "External" tag

I will try to reach out out IT, to understand if they done something the past about this

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Jacob the Moderator

Zendesk LuminaryCommunity Moderator

Hi Danilo Moretti 👋

If you look at the first ticket event on one of those tickets, you should see any change to the subject that is being made. 

It is possible that this is not something a Zendesk trigger is doing, perhaps your IT setup does this for all inbound emails coming from outside your organization?

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Jacob the Moderator

Zendesk LuminaryCommunity Moderator

Note to self: Refresh page before adding a reply 😊 

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Brett Bowser

Zendesk Community Manager

Thanks for jumping in to help here Jacob the Moderator and Heather Rommel!

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Thank you Jacob, for this guidance

I looked here, and the Zendesk recognizes as EXTERNAL since the beginning

We are trying to understand why this is happening, and how to change it, so we would be able to configure our triggers and automations better, setting a standard flow

This is what I received when I clicked on ticket events

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Jacob the Moderator

Zendesk LuminaryCommunity Moderator

Danilo.

It just occurred to me if all you want to accomplish is to prevent the "external" text from going out to the requester, you can fix that in the notification trigger. By default, it may use the ticket subject in the email notification, but it doesn't have to, you can insert another text and or placeholders.

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