I have been using osTicket for a long time (Thanks!)... One option that I feel that is missing since we suffer a lot of spam to our helpdesk is a 'Ban & Delete' Button on the Open Ticket page. Ideally one could select all offending tickets and both Ban & Delete easily.

I realise its possible to delete from this page, but I dont think you can Ban at this point.

If I am not mistaken the only way to Ban offending tickets is to open a ticket, select 'More' then 'Ban' then select 'More again' then 'Delete.

What other spam counter measures are possible (for tickets that are emailed)?

Is it possible to implement a 'Ban & Delete' button on the list Open Tickets view?

20 days later

I'd like to see something like a ban/delete button too. Having just received a spam ticket by email, I then had to go through the drop down list to ban the email, delete the ticket, delete the user. It would be great if this was all done in one step. Anybody know what the MySQL query would be to do this?

2 months later

Just want to bump this in case anyone has solved issue.

8 days later

SPAM is always an issue and I am actually surprised that this is not a bigger issue and the ability to deal with it is not a built in option.  Not knowing how you are setup, I am not sure if this is a workable solution but you could always use the "Ticket Filter" system to dis-allow email addresses  if it does not match the filters criteria.  At least this might give you a fighting chance.  I would also like to see some sort of captchya type of system as a filter option as this way if the filter fails then the user at least has a chance to submit a ticket.

On my forums one thing I did was a robot count down timer, where in this case the creation of the user ID could not be completed in under x amount of time and submitted, as then it would be tagged as SPAM.  The submit button showed the count down so those that were actually fast enough to beat the timer at least would wait for the timer to expire.

Also I use black lists where the users email is scanned and compared to known spammer database lists.

Just some ideas...

6 years later

Currently the "ban button" exists only when viewing a specific ticket currently.
Click on the ticket that you want to ban, click on the gear in the upper right, select Ban Email.

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