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Rescue real customer emails from Zendesk suspension
For support teams who want genuine messages found among suspended tickets before customers give up, by asking their AI assistant.
On this page
Connector
Connect Zendesk, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Real customer emails sit in suspension with the spam
Genuine customer emails sometimes land in Zendesk suspended tickets alongside spam and auto replies, and nobody looks until a customer complains. Sorting the real ones from the junk means checking each sender by hand.
Without PopdockAI
- Open the suspended tickets view
- Look up each sender in your users
- Judge each subject and cause by eye
- Find the real email after the customer complains
With PopdockAI
- Suspended tickets are read for the period you name
- Up to 25 senders are checked against your users
- Each ticket is sorted into recover, review or discard
- It is read-only and lists the ids to recover
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Review the Zendesk suspended tickets created in the last `{lookback-days}` days (default 7) and identify real customer messages that were caught by mistake.
**Step 1: Pull the suspended tickets**
Call `zendesk-get-suspended-ticket` with created.from set to today minus `{lookback-days}` days (YYYY-MM-DD) and max-records 200. Ignore rows where deleted is true.
**Step 2: Check each sender**
For each distinct author-email (at most 25), call `zendesk-get-user` with email set to it.
* A known user with role end-user or agent, and active true, is a strong sign the message is genuine.
* A known user with suspended true was blocked on purpose.
* An unknown sender needs judging from subject and cause.
**Step 3: Classify**
Put each into one bucket:
* **Recover** - known active user, or a plausible support request whose cause is a filter or detection rule rather than spam.
* **Review** - unknown sender with a plausible subject.
* **Discard** - clear spam, auto-replies, bounce messages, or senders that are suspended users.
**Step 4: Report**
1. Counts by cause and by bucket.
2. A Recover table: suspended-ticket-id, created-date, author-name, author-email, subject, cause, and why.
3. A Review table with the same columns.
4. Discard as a count with the top causes only.
5. If one cause dominates the Recover bucket, suggest the filter or setting to look at.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Do NOT call `zendesk-add-ticket`, `zendesk-update-user`, `zendesk-add-user` or any other add, update or make tool. Recovering a suspended ticket is done in Zendesk itself; list the ids to recover.
* Do not unsuspend or re-create tickets on the sender's behalf.
**Validation:**
* If nothing is suspended in the period, say so and stop.
* If author-email is blank, classify from subject and cause alone and say so.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Support agents
Rescue real emails from suspension
Get a short list of suspended tickets from known customers, with ids ready to recover in Zendesk.
Which suspended Zendesk tickets from the last 3 days come from real customers?
Support administrators
Tune the filter that catches too much
When one suspension cause dominates, you get a pointer to the filter worth checking.
Review Zendesk suspended tickets from the past month and tell me which cause is suspending the most real mail.
Support team leads
Make suspended tickets part of the daily check
A quick sort into recover, review and discard keeps genuine messages from going unanswered.
Sort this week's suspended Zendesk tickets into recover, review and discard.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You name a lookback period, and your AI assistant sorts the suspended tickets by sender, subject and cause. It recommends what to recover and leaves the recovery to you in Zendesk.
01
Ask
You name a lookback period.
02
Check
It reads suspended tickets and checks up to 25 senders against your users.
03
Sort
It puts each into recover, review or discard by sender, subject and cause.
04
Report
You get counts, recover and review tables, and the filter to look at.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Zendesk and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
zendesk-get-suspended-ticket
zendesk-get-user
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
Genuine customer messages rescued before customers give up
Related use cases
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