topic Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email in Alfresco Archive

How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

webraccoon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:50:21 GMT

Hi,i need a solution to extract the Message-ID from an inbound mail.I thought about an aspect in content type mail. but how can i automatically extract this id and put it into the new field?thankswebraccoon

Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

mrogers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:58:54 GMT

What sort of email? What version of Alfresco.

There's already a metadata extractor for RFC822 messages. MessageId is one of the fields it can map.

Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

webraccoon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:04:27 GMT

Oh hi, thanks for reply,

I use CommunityEditon 3.2. I don't know what you mean with, which sort of email?
I use Alfresco as Inbound Server an send via thunderbird mails to specific space.

I tried to run the action "Extract common meta data fields from content" but i cannot see any response.

Is this what you mean?

webraccoon

Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

mrogers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:19:12 GMT

So you are talking abount an inbound SMTP message.

I'll have to look at the code to understand whether its possible to get at the message id.

Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

mrogers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:03:41 GMT

It doesn't look like there is a Message-ID on a SMTP message so there's nothing to extract.

Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

webraccoon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:34:20 GMT

Hi and thanks for reply,

according to RFC-5322, the Internet Message Format, there should be an header field <message-id>.
How does the SMTP in Alfresco work? Does he filter the header fields?

thanks,
webraccoon

Re: How to extract Meta Data - Message-ID - from Email

mrogers — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:01:55 GMT

Alfresco's email handler pre-dates that standard.