I have an issue, where my JIRA agents are commenting on tickets in the open status, before transitioning them to 'In Progress". I want to force my agents to hit the in-progress transition before commenting.
The problem with the below solution is when someone sends an email to support@XXXXXX.com, they get an auto-reply that reminds them to send in some required information. While the ticket is in the 'Open' status, if they reply with the below property set, it creates a new ticket. Could use some help on this issue
Add a property for the Status "jira.permission.comment.denied.group" and put my user group. However as mentioned above, it turns off comments for the external customers who may want to reply to add in information.

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