We are (unsuccessfully) trying to add a secondary support email for our developer relations team. It is a google group account and so can not sign in via SSO, and does not have a username/password.
I can’t find any documentation for how Freshdesk expects us to connect this account so that incoming emails get pushed into their system. Any help would be appreciated.
Best answer by Mathieu7
Hi,
This is a really bad approach as you’ll generally have teams inside of a company who will need to receive emails from externals all at once.
Our workaround was to add the freshdesk generated email to the group. You should add this to your documentation.
Rami
This might result in missing emails. I don’t recommend it. We had to manually create tickets for a lot of emails. If the emails send to your support address google group has the same subject as another email, google group might thread it and freshdesk wont create a new ticket, not even update it and it becomes really hard to find which ones
+6Hi
Greetings from Freshworks Community!
Group inboxes at times cause issues with ticket creation and appending of replies. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you do not use them as your support email addresses.
For further information on this, you could always write to support@freshdesk.com.
Regards,
Jebas D.
Hi,
This is a really bad approach as you’ll generally have teams inside of a company who will need to receive emails from externals all at once.
Our workaround was to add the freshdesk generated email to the group. You should add this to your documentation.
Rami
+6Hi,
I understand your point. Yes, the work around is to add the Freshdesk forwarding email address to your group. Glad that you’ve already done that.
I’ll surely forward the feedback to add this to the Documentation. Thank you understanding and for Feedback.
Regards,
Jebas.
Hi,
This is a really bad approach as you’ll generally have teams inside of a company who will need to receive emails from externals all at once.
Our workaround was to add the freshdesk generated email to the group. You should add this to your documentation.
Rami
This might result in missing emails. I don’t recommend it. We had to manually create tickets for a lot of emails. If the emails send to your support address google group has the same subject as another email, google group might thread it and freshdesk wont create a new ticket, not even update it and it becomes really hard to find which ones
Mathieu7 I really appreciated that.
We are currently trying the gmail routing to add a recipient to every email sent to our support email address. We should see pretty soon if it solve our missing emails problems
Update : the gmail routing is working perfectly and we are experiencing no more problems with missing emails in freshdesk! Hurray to me!
You need google workspace but I’m not sure what tier you need to be able to use that feature ( but I thinkg it works even with the lowest “basic tier”)
I hope this helps
App \ Google workspace \ Gmail \ default routing \ add another rule
single address
| param | value |
|---|---|
| single recipient | your_support_address@yourdomain.com |
| also deliver to | activate Checkbox |
| also deliver to click “add” | youfreshdeskemailaddress@yourfreshdeskuser.freshdesk.com ( this is the freshdesk email address where to send your email) |
| 3. Options | select “Perform this action on non-recognized and recognized addresses” |
Did you find a way to also use the google group address as an outbound address in Freshdesk? Seems like freshdesk requires authentication credentials for outbound aliases/addresses.
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