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NAME

RT::Config

use RT::Config;

WARNING

NEVER EDIT RT_Config.pm.

Instead, copy any sections you want to change to RT_SiteConfig.pm and edit them there.

Base Configuration

$rtname
    $rtname is the string that RT will look for in mail messages to figure out what ticket a new piece of mail belongs to.

    Your domain name is recommended, so as not to pollute the namespace.  once you start using a given tag, you should probably never change it.  (otherwise, mail for existing tickets won't get put in the right place)

$EmailSubjectTagRegex
    This regexp controls what subject tags RT recognizes as its own.  If you're not dealing with historical $rtname values, you'll likely never have to enable this feature.

    Be VERY CAREFUL with it. Note that it overrides $rtname for subject token matching and that you should use only "non-capturing" parenthesis grouping. For example:

    "Set($EmailSubjectTagRegex, qr/(?:example.com|example.org)/i );"

    and NOT

    "Set($EmailSubjectTagRegex, qr/(example.com|example.org)/i );"

    This setting would make RT behave exactly as it does without the setting enabled.

$Organization
    You should set this to your organization's DNS domain. For example, fsck.com or asylum.arkham.ma.us. It's used by the linking interface to guarantee that ticket URIs are unique and easy to construct.

$MinimumPasswordLength
    $MinimumPasswordLength defines the minimum length for user passwords. Setting it to 0 disables this check.

$Timezone
    $Timezone is used to convert times entered by users into GMT and back again It should be set to a timezone recognized by your local unix box.

Database Configuration

$DatabaseType
    Database driver being used; case matters.

    Valid types are "mysql", "Oracle" and "Pg"

$DatabaseHost, $DatabaseRTHost
    The domain name of your database server.

    If you're running mysql and it's on localhost, leave it blank for enhanced performance

$DatabasePort
    The port that your database server is running on.  Ignored unless it's a positive integer. It's usually safe to leave this blank

$DatabaseUser
    The name of the database user (inside the database)

$DatabasePassword
    Password the $DatabaseUser should use to access the database

$DatabaseName
    The name of the RT's database on your database server

$DatabaseRequireSSL
    If you're using Postgres and have compiled in SSL support, set $DatabaseRequireSSL to 1 to turn on SSL communication

$UseSQLForACLChecks
    In RT for ages ACL are checked after search what in some situtations result in empty search pages and wrong count of tickets.

    Set $UseSQLForACLChecks to 1 to use SQL and get rid of these problems.

    However, this option is beta. In some cases it result in performance improvements, but some setups can not handle it.

Incoming Mail Gateway Configuration

$OwnerEmail
    $OwnerEmail is the address of a human who manages RT. RT will send errors generated by the mail gateway to this address.  This address should _not_ be an address that's managed by your RT instance.

$LoopsToRTOwner
    If $LoopsToRTOwner is defined, RT will send mail that it believes might be a loop to $OwnerEmail

$StoreLoops
    If $StoreLoops is defined, RT will record messages that it believes to be part of mail loops.

    As it does this, it will try to be careful not to send mail to the sender of these messages

$MaxAttachmentSize
    $MaxAttachmentSize sets the maximum size (in bytes) of attachments stored in the database.

    For mysql and oracle, we set this size at 10 megabytes.  If you're running a postgres version earlier than 7.1, you will need to drop this to 8192. (8k)

$TruncateLongAttachments
    $TruncateLongAttachments: if this is set to a non-undef value, RT will truncate attachments longer than $MaxAttachmentSize.

$DropLongAttachments
    $DropLongAttachments: if this is set to a non-undef value, RT will silently drop attachments longer than "MaxAttachmentSize".

$ParsenewMessageForTicketCcs
    If $ParseNewMessageForTicketCcs is true, RT will attempt to divine Ticket 'Cc' watchers from the To and Cc lines of incoming messages Be forewarned that if you have _any_ addresses which forward mail to RT
    automatically and you enable this option without modifying $RTAddressRegexp below, you will get yourself into a heap of trouble.

$RTAddressRegexp
    $RTAddressRegexp is used to make sure RT doesn't add itself as a ticket CC if the setting above is enabled.

$CanonicalizeEmailAddressMatch, $CanonicalizeEmailAddressReplace
    RT provides functionality which allows the system to rewrite incoming email addresses.  In its simplest form, you can substitute the value in $<CanonicalizeEmailAddressReplace> for the value in
    $<CanonicalizeEmailAddressMatch> (These values are passed to the $<CanonicalizeEmailAddress> subroutine in
     RT/User.pm)

    By default, that routine performs a "s/$Match/$Replace/gi" on any address passed to it.

$CanonicalizeEmailAddressMatch
    Set this to true and the create new user page will use the values that you enter in the form but use the function CanonicalizeUserInfo in RT/User_Local.pm

$SenderMustExistInExternalDatabase
    If $SenderMustExistInExternalDatabase is true, RT will refuse to create non-privileged accounts for unknown users if you are using the $LookupSenderInExternalDatabase option.  Instead, an error message will be mailed
    and RT will forward the message to $RTOwner.

    If you are not using $LookupSenderInExternalDatabase, this option has no effect.

    If you define an AutoRejectRequest template, RT will use this template for the rejection message.

@MailPlugins
    @MailPlugins is a list of auth plugins for RT::Interface::Email to use; see rt-mailgate

$UnsafeEmailCommands
    $UnsafeEmailCommands, if set to true, enables 'take' and 'resolve' as possible actions via the mail gateway.  As its name implies, this is very unsafe, as it allows email with a forged sender to possibly resolve
    arbitrary tickets!

$ExtractSubjectTagMatch, $ExtractSubjectTagNoMatch
    The default "extract remote tracking tags" scrip settings; these detect when your RT is talking to another RT, and adjusts the subject accordingly.

Outgoing Mail Configuration

$MailCommand
    $MailCommand defines which method RT will use to try to send mail.  We know that 'sendmailpipe' works fairly well.  If 'sendmailpipe' doesn't work well for you, try 'sendmail'.  Other options are 'smtp' or 'qmail'.

    Note that you should remove the '-t' from $SendmailArguments if you use 'sendmail' rather than 'sendmailpipe'

Sendmail Configuration

These options only take effect if $MailCommand is 'sendmail' or 'sendmailpipe'

$SendmailArguments
    $SendmailArguments defines what flags to pass to $SendmailPath If you picked 'sendmailpipe', you MUST add a -t flag to $SendmailArguments These options are good for most sendmail wrappers and workalikes

    These arguments are good for sendmail brand sendmail 8 and newer "Set($SendmailArguments,"-oi -t -ODeliveryMode=b -OErrorMode=m");"

$SendmailBounceArguments
    $SendmailBounceArguments defines what flags to pass to $Sendmail assuming RT needs to send an error (ie. bounce).

$SendmailPath
    If you selected 'sendmailpipe' above, you MUST specify the path to your sendmail binary in $SendmailPath.

SMTP Configuration

These options only take effect if $MailCommand is 'smtp'

$SMTPServer
    $SMTPServer should be set to the hostname of the SMTP server to use

$SMTPFrom
    $SMTPFrom should be set to the 'From' address to use, if not the email's 'From'

$SMTPDebug
    $SMTPDebug should be set to true to debug SMTP mail sending

Other Mailer Configuration

@MailParams
    @MailParams defines a list of options passed to $MailCommand if it is not 'sendmailpipe', 'sendmail', or 'smtp'

$CorrespondAddress, $CommentAddress
    RT is designed such that any mail which already has a ticket-id associated with it will get to the right place automatically.

    $CorrespondAddress and $CommentAddress are the default addresses that will be listed in From: and Reply-To: headers of correspondence and comment mail tracked by RT, unless overridden by a queue-specific address.

$DashboardAddress
    The email address from which RT will send dashboards. If none is set, then $OwnerEmail will be used.

$UseFriendlyFromLine
    By default, RT sets the outgoing mail's "From:" header to "SenderName via RT".  Setting $UseFriendlyFromLine to 0 disables it.

$FriendlyFromLineFormat
    "sprintf()" format of the friendly 'From:' header; its arguments are SenderName and SenderEmailAddress.

$UseFriendlyToLine
    RT can optionally set a "Friendly" 'To:' header when sending messages to Ccs or AdminCcs (rather than having a blank 'To:' header.

    This feature DOES NOT WORK WITH SENDMAIL[tm] BRAND SENDMAIL If you are using sendmail, rather than postfix, qmail, exim or some other MTA, you _must_ disable this option.

$FriendlyToLineFormat
    "sprintf()" format of the friendly 'From:' header; its arguments are WatcherType and TicketId.

$NotifyActor
    By default, RT doesn't notify the person who performs an update, as they already know what they've done. If you'd like to change this behaviour, Set $NotifyActor to 1

$RecordOutgoingEmail
    By default, RT records each message it sends out to its own internal database.  To change this behavior, set $RecordOutgoingEmail to 0

$VERPPrefix, $VERPPrefix
    VERP support (http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt)

    uncomment the following two directives to generate envelope senders of the form "${VERPPrefix}${originaladdress}@${VERPDomain}" (i.e. rt-jesse=fsck.com@rt.example.com ).

    This currently only works with sendmail and sendmailppie.

$ForwardFromUser
    By default, RT forwards a message using queue's address and adds RT's tag into subject of the outgoing message, so recipients' replies go into RT as correspondents.

    To change this behavior, set $ForwardFromUser to true value and RT will use address of the current user and leave subject without RT's tag.

$ShowBccHeader
    By default RT hides from the web UI information about blind copies user sent on reply or comment.

    To change this set the following option to true value.

$DashboardSubject
    Lets you set the subject of dashboards. Arguments are the frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) of the dashboard and the dashboard's name. [_1] for the name of the dashboard.

GnuPG Configuration

A full description of the (somewhat extensive) GnuPG integration can be found by running the command 'perldoc RT::Crypt::GnuPG'  (or 'perldoc
        lib/RT/Crypt/GnuPG.pm' from your RT install directory).

%GnuPG
    Set "OutgoingMessagesFormat" to 'inline' to use inline encryption and signatures instead of 'RFC' (GPG/MIME: RFC3156 and RFC1847) format.

    If you want to allow people to encrypt attachments inside the DB then set "AllowEncryptDataInDB" to true

%GnuPGOptions
    Options of GnuPG program.

    If you override this in your RT_SiteConfig, you should be sure to include a homedir setting.

    NOTE that options with '-' character MUST be quoted.

Logging Configuration

The default is to log anything except debugging information to syslog.  Check the Log::Dispatch POD for information about how to get things by syslog, mail or anything else, get debugging info in the log, etc.

It might generally make sense to send error and higher by email to some administrator.  If you do this, be careful that this email isn't sent to this RT instance.  Mail loops will generate a critical log message.

$LogToSyslog, $LogToScreen
    The minimum level error that will be logged to the specific device.  From lowest to highest priority, the levels are:
     debug info notice warning error critical alert emergency

$LogToFile, $LogDir, $LogToFileNamed
    Logging to a standalone file is also possible, but note that the file should needs to both exist and be writable by all direct users of the RT API.  This generally include the web server, whoever rt-crontool runs as.
    Note that as rt-mailgate and the RT CLI go through the webserver, so their users do not need to have write permissions to this file. If you expect to have multiple users of the direct API, Best Practical recommends
    using syslog instead of direct file logging.

$LogStackTraces
    If set to a log level then logging will include stack traces for messages with level equal to or greater than specified.

@LogToSyslogConf
    On Solaris or UnixWare, set to ( socket => 'inet' ).  Options here override any other options RT passes to Log::Dispatch::Syslog.  Other interesting flags include facility and logopt.  (See the Log::Dispatch::Syslog
    documentation for more information.)  (Maybe ident too, if you have multiple RT installations.)

$StatementLog,
    RT has rudimentary SQL statement logging support if you have DBIx-SearchBuilder 1.31_1 or higher; simply set $StatementLog to be the level that you wish SQL statements to be logged at.

Web Interface Configuration

$WebDefaultStylesheet
     This determines the default stylesheet the RT web interface will use.  RT ships with several themes by default:
 
       web2            The totally new, default layout for RT 3.8
       3.5-default     RT 3.5 and 3.6 original layout
       3.4-compat      A 3.4 compatibility stylesheet to make RT look
                       (mostly) like 3.4
 
     This value actually specifies a directory in share/html/NoAuth/css/ from which RT will try to load the file main.css (which should @import any other files the stylesheet needs).  This allows you to easily and cleanly
     create your own stylesheets to apply to RT.  This option can be overridden by users in their preferences.
 
 $UsernameFormat
     This determines how user info is displayed. Concise will show one of either NickName, RealName, Name or EmailAddress, depending on what exists and whether the user is privileged or not. Verbose will show RealName and
     EmailAddress.
 
 $WebPath
     If you're putting the web ui somewhere other than at the root of your server, you should set $WebPath to the path you'll be serving RT at.
 
     $WebPath requires a leading / but no trailing /.
 
     In most cases, you should leave $WebPath set to '' (an empty value).
 
 $WebPort
     If we're running as a superuser, run on port 80 Otherwise, pick a high port for this user.
 
 $WebDomain
     you know what domain name is, right? ;)
 
 $WebBaseURL, $WebURL
     This is the Scheme, server and port for constructing urls to webrt $WebBaseURL doesn't need a trailing /
 
 $WebImagesURL
     $WebImagesURL points to the base URL where RT can find its images.  Define the directory name to be used for images in rt web documents.
 
 $LogoURL
     $LogoURL points to the URL of the RT logo displayed in the web UI
 
 $WebNoAuthRegex
     What portion of RT's URLspace should not require authentication.
 
 $SelfServiceRegex
     What portion of RT's URLspace should be accessible to Unprivileged users This does not override the redirect from /Ticket/Display.html to /SelfService/Display.html when Unprivileged users attempt to access ticked
     displays
 
 $MessageBoxWidth, $MessageBoxHeight
     For message boxes, set the entry box width, height and what type of wrapping to use.  These options can be overridden by users in their preferences.
 
     Default width: 72, height: 15
 
     These settings only apply to the non-RichText message box.  See below for Rich Text settings.
 
 $MessageBoxWrap
     Default wrapping: "HARD"  (choices "SOFT", "HARD")
 
 $MessageBoxRichText
     Should "rich text" editing be enabled? This option lets your users send html email messages from the web interface.
 
 $MessageBoxRichTextHeight
     Height of RichText javascript enabled editing boxes (in pixels)
 
 $MessageBoxIncludeSignature
     Should your user's signatures (from their Preferences page) be included in Comments and Replies
 
 $WikiImplicitLinks
     Support implicit links in WikiText custom fields?  A true value causes InterCapped or ALLCAPS words in WikiText fields to automatically become links to searches for those words.  If used on RTFM articles, it links to
     the RTFM article with that name.
 
 $TrustHTMLAttachments
     if "TrustHTMLAttachments" is not defined, we will display them as text. This prevents malicious HTML and javascript from being sent in a request (although there is probably more to it than that)
 
 $RedistributeAutoGeneratedMessages
     Should RT redistribute correspondence that it identifies as machine generated? A true value will do so; setting this to '0' will cause no such messages to be redistributed.  You can also use 'privileged' (the default),
     which will redistribute only to privileged users. This helps to protect against malformed bounces and loops caused by autocreated requestors with bogus addresses.
 
 $PreferRichText
     If $PreferRichText is set to a true value, RT will show HTML/Rich text messages in preference to their plaintext alternatives. RT "scrubs" the html to show only a minimal subset of HTML to avoid possible contamination
     by cross-site-scripting attacks.
 
 $WebExternalAuth
     If $WebExternalAuth is defined, RT will defer to the environment's REMOTE_USER variable.
 
 $WebFallbackToInternalAuth
     If $WebFallbackToInternalAuth is undefined, the user is allowed a chance of fallback to the login screen, even if REMOTE_USER failed.
 
 $WebExternalGecos
     $WebExternalGecos means to match 'gecos' field as the user identity); useful with mod_auth_pwcheck and IIS Integrated Windows logon.
 
 $WebExternalAuto
     $WebExternalAuto will create users under the same name as REMOTE_USER upon login, if it's missing in the Users table.
 
 $AutoCreate
     If $WebExternalAuto is true, $AutoCreate will be passed to User's Create method.  Use it to set defaults, such as creating Unprivileged users with "{ Privileged =" 0 }> ( Must be a hashref of arguments )
 
 $WebSessionClass
     $WebSessionClass is the class you wish to use for managing Sessions.  It defaults to use your SQL database, but if you are using MySQL 3.x and plans to use non-ascii Queue names, uncomment and add this line to
     RT_SiteConfig.pm will prevent session corruption.
 
 $AutoLogoff
     By default, RT's user sessions persist until a user closes his or her browser. With the $AutoLogoff option you can setup session lifetime in minutes. A user will be logged out if he or she doesn't send any requests to
     RT for the defined time.
 
 $WebSecureCookies
     By default, RT's session cookie isn't marked as "secure" Some web browsers will treat secure cookies more carefully than non-secure ones, being careful not to write them to disk, only send them over an SSL secured
     connection and so on. To enable this behaviour, set $WebSecureCookies to a true value.  NOTE: You probably don't want to turn this on _unless_ users are only connecting via SSL encrypted HTTP connections.
 
 $WebFlushDbCacheEveryRequest
     By default, RT clears its database cache after every page view.  This ensures that you've always got the most current information when working in a multi-process (mod_perl or FastCGI) Environment Setting
     $WebFlushDbCacheEveryRequest to '0' will turn this off, which will speed RT up a bit, at the expense of a tiny bit of data accuracy.
 
 $MaxInlineBody
     $MaxInlineBody is the maximum attachment size that we want to see inline when viewing a transaction.  RT will inline any text if value is undefined or 0.  This option can be overridden by users in their preferences.
 
 $DefaultSummaryRows
     $DefaultSummaryRows is default number of rows displayed in for search results on the frontpage.
 
 $OldestTransactionsFirst
     By default, RT shows newest transactions at the bottom of the ticket history page, if you want see them at the top set this to '0'.  This option can be overridden by users in their preferences.
 
 $ShowTransactionImages
     By default, RT shows images attached to incoming (and outgoing) ticket updates inline. Set this variable to 0 if you'd like to disable that behaviour
 
 $PlainTextPre
     Normally plaintext attachments are displayed as HTML with line breaks preserved.  This causes space- and tab-based formatting not to be displayed correctly.  By setting $PlainTextPre they'll be displayed using <pre>
     instead so such formatting works, but they'll use a monospaced font.
 
 $ShowUnreadMessageNotifications
     By default, RT will prompt users when there are new, unread messages on tickets they are viewing.
 
     Set $ShowUnreadMessageNotifications to a false value to disable this feature.
 
 $HomepageComponents
     $HomepageComponents is an arrayref of allowed components on a user's customized homepage ("RT at a glance").
 
 @MasonParameters
     @MasonParameters is the list of parameters for the constructor of HTML::Mason's Apache or CGI Handler.  This is normally only useful for debugging, eg. profiling individual components with:
 
         use MasonX::Profiler; # available on CPAN
         Set(@MasonParameters, (preamble => 'my $p = MasonX::Profiler->new($m, $r);'));
 
 $DefaultSearchResultFormat
     $DefaultSearchResultFormat is the default format for RT search results
 
 $SuppressInlineTextFiles
     If $SuppressInlineTextFiles is set to a true value, then uploaded text files (text-type attachments with file names) are prevented from being displayed in-line when viewing a ticket's history.
 
 $DontSearchFileAttachments
     If $DontSearchFileAttachments is set to a true value, then uploaded files (attachments with file names) are not searched during full-content ticket searches.
 
 $ChartFont
     The GD module (which RT uses for graphs) uses a builtin font that doesn't have full Unicode support. You can use a particular TrueType font by setting $ChartFont to the absolute path of that font. Your GD library must
     have support for TrueType fonts to use this option.
 
 @Active_MakeClicky
     MakeClicky detects various formats of data in headers and email messages, and extends them with supporting links.  By default, RT provides two formats:
 
     * 'httpurl': detects http:// and https:// URLs and adds '[Open URL]'
       link after the URL.
 
     * 'httpurl_overwrite': also detects URLs as 'httpurl' format, but
       replace URL with link and *adds spaces* into text if it's longer
       then 30 chars. This allow browser to wrap long URLs and avoid
       horizontal scrolling.
 
     See share/html/Elements/MakeClicky for documentation on how to add your own.
 
 $DefaultQueue
     Use this to select the default queue name that will be used for creating new tickets. You may use either the queue's name or its ID. This only affects the queue selection boxes on the web interface.
 
 

Net::Server (rt-server) Configuration

$StandaloneMinServers, $StandaloneMaxServers
    The absolute minimum and maximum number of servers that will be created to handle requests. Having multiple servers means that serving a slow page will affect other users less.

$StandaloneMinSpareServers, $StandaloneMaxSpareServers
    These next two options can be used to scale up and down the number of servers to adjust to load. These two options will respect the $StandaloneMinServers  and "$StandaloneMaxServers options".

$StandaloneMaxRequests
    This sets the absolute maximum number of requests a single server will serve.  Setting this would be useful if, for example, memory usage slowly crawls up every hit.

%NetServerOptions
    %NetServerOptions is a hash of additional options to use for "DEFAULT ARGUMENTS" in Net::Server. For example, you could set reverse_lookups to get the hostnames for all users with:

    "Set(%NetServerOptions, (reverse_lookups =" 1));>

UTF-8 Configuration

@LexiconLanguages
    An array that contains languages supported by RT's internationalization interface.  Defaults to all *.po lexicons; setting it to "qw(en ja)" will make RT bilingual instead of multilingual, but will save some memory.

@EmailInputEncodings
    An array that contains default encodings used to guess which charset an attachment uses if not specified.  Must be recognized by Encode::Guess.

$EmailOutputEncoding
    The charset for localized email.  Must be recognized by Encode.

Date Handling Configuration

$DateTimeFormat
    You can choose date and time format.  See "Output formatters" section in perldoc lib/RT/Date.pm for more options.  This option can be overridden by users in their preferences.  Some examples:

    "Set($DateTimeFormat, { Format =" 'ISO', Seconds => 0 });> "Set($DateTimeFormat, 'RFC2822');" "Set($DateTimeFormat, { Format =" 'RFC2822', Seconds => 0, DayOfWeek => 0 });>

$DateDayBeforeMonth
    Set this to 1 if your local date convention looks like "dd/mm/yy" instead of "mm/dd/yy".

$AmbiguousDayInPast, $AmbiguousDayInFuture
    Should an unspecified day or year in a date refer to a future or a past value? For example, should a date of "Tuesday" default to mean the date for next Tuesday or last Tuesday? Should the date "March 1" default to the
    date for next March or last March?

    Set $<AmbiguousDayInPast> for the last date, or $<$AmbiguousDayInFuture> for the next date.

    The default is usually good.

Miscellaneous Configuration

@ActiveStatus, @InactiveStatus
    You can define new statuses and even reorder existing statuses here.  WARNING. DO NOT DELETE ANY OF THE DEFAULT STATUSES. If you do, RT will break horribly. The statuses you add must be no longer than 10 characters.

$LinkTransactionsRun1Scrip
    RT-3.4 backward compatibility setting. Add/Delete Link used to record one transaction and run one scrip. Set this value to 1 if you want only one of the link transactions to have scrips run.

$StrictLinkACL
    When this feature is enabled a user needs ModifyTicket rights on both tickets to link them together, otherwise he can have rights on either of them.

$PreviewScripMessages
    Set $PreviewScripMessages to 1 if the scrips preview on the ticket reply page should include the content of the messages to be sent.

$UseTransactionBatch
    Set $UseTransactionBatch to 1 to execute transactions in batches, such that a resolve and comment (for example) would happen simultaneously, instead of as two transactions, unaware of each others' existence.

@CustomFieldValuesSources
    Set @CustomFieldValuesSources to a list of class names which extend RT::CustomFieldValues::External.  This can be used to pull lists of custom field values from external sources at runtime.

$CanonicalizeRedirectURLs
    Set $CanonicalizeRedirectURLs to 1 to use $"WebURL" when redirecting rather than the one we get from %ENV.

    If you use RT behind a reverse proxy, you almost certainly want to enable this option.

$EnableReminders
    Hide links/portlets related to Reminders by setting this to 0

Development Configuration

$DevelMode
    RT comes with a "Development mode" setting.  This setting, as a convenience for developers, turns on all sorts of development options that you most likely don't want in production:

    * Turns off Mason's 'static_source' directive. By default, you can't
      edit RT's web ui components on the fly and have RT magically pick up
      your changes. (It's a big performance hit)

     * More to come

Deprecated Options

$AlwaysUseBase64
    Encode blobs as base64 in DB (?)

$TicketBaseURI
    Base URI to tickets in this system; used when loading (?)

$UseCodeTickets
    This option is exists for backwards compatibility.  Don't use it.