topic Re: Imap metadata in Alfresco Archive

Imap metadata

rascio — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:54:39 GMT

Hi at all,i've enabled the imap subsystem, when i drag and drop an email on an Alfresco folder, it's created the relative .eml file in Alfresco. I want to change the name of the file created (Message_xxx.eml) with the subject of the email, how i can do this?I've tried putting this linemessageSubject

Re: Imap metadata

mrogers — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:36:42 GMT

It should work.

Re: Imap metadata

rascio — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:53:19 GMT

I have to restart alfresco after i made this setting?

It this the only way to do this?

Re: Imap metadata

mrogers — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:24:46 GMT

Are you extracting to an RM folder. In which case you should be able to use the RM admin console.

Re: Imap metadata

rascio — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:06:49 GMT

I've seen that the behavior is the same if i put the content in an rm folder or in a normal space, and not all the mappings works. I've tried to change some mapping and don't seems work correctly…maybe the better solution is create a rule at the top of alfresco and change the name from this one.

Re: Imap metadata

rascio — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:27:48 GMT

I've see the code of the class org.alfresco.module.org_alfresco_module_dod5015.email.CustomEmailMappingServiceImpl, this class modify the extracter.RFC822 (org.alfresco.repo.content.metadata.RFC822MetadataExtracter) and adds to it the custom mapping defined in the jsonMapping.json.
But reading the wiki about the MetadataExtractor:

When a property already exists, it is not overwritten by the extractor.

The cm:name is a mandatory parameter, so is possible that when the RFC822MetadataExtracter extract the metadata and insert into the node the cm:name is already enhanced?

If it is true, there are some properties that are impossible to overwrite with the Records Management Email Mapping…

I hope I'm wrong

Re: Imap metadata

mrogers — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:57:18 GMT

Whether a metadata extractor overwrites existing properties is configurable. By default, I think the mode is PRAGMATIC which will not overwrite non null values.

Re: Imap metadata

rascio — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:39:18 GMT

Thank you so much!

I've changed the overwrite policy and working properly.

Now the problem is that the subject of the email don't match the constraints regex ahah.

I will write a behavior that change the name if the subject if the constraints it's ok.

Re: Imap metadata

sjeandroz — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:02:42 GMT

Hello,

I have the same probleme.

Whene I drag&drop an email to Alfresco using imap, it is created with the name "Message_XXXX".

I don't use the Records Management Console (I don't know if there is an additionnal module to install in order to use this console, or not), so I don't really understand the way you use to resolve this probleme.

Someone could help me to resolve this problem?

Thanks and sorry for my bad level in english