Replies to forwarded emails trigger ticket status update

Status: Idea Submitted

We’ve recently started using HubSpot Service Hub and have found it frustrating that when a customer replies to an email that we forwarded them from a ticket, this reply doesn’t trigger automation to change the ticket status back to ‘Waiting on us’.

The workaround is to create a new email to that other email but we really shouldn’t have to.

An example use-case is where a customer complains to us about an experience with a supplier, we then forward this complaint to the supplier to come up with a resolution but when the supplier replies to us, the ticket status doesn’t automatically update.

After discussion with HubSpot Support, it seems that the “hs_last_email_activty” property needs to be triggered with forwarded emails and this will work correctly.

+1 on the behalf of a customer!

I agree

This makes so much sense, I’m not sure why someone wouldn’t want the status to change for a forwarded conversation!