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Inbound Email Attachment Version Control?

gregj — Tue, 06 May 2014 15:30:56 GMT

I finally got Alfresco Community (on my home PC) to take inbound emails. At work, my coworker had already gotten Alfresco to do the same thing. But if I send a follow-up email with the same file, the system saves the attachment as a separate file. So file name M4s.xls is unaffected but I see a ne

Re: Inbound Email Attachment Version Control?

jpotts — Tue, 06 May 2014 19:11:34 GMT

I believe you are going to have to customize the inbound SMTP class so that when it finds a matching attachment name in the folder it creates a new version rather than creating a new object.

I don't know of a setting that allows you to do that through config, but I could be wrong.

Jeff

Re: Inbound Email Attachment Version Control?

mrogers — Wed, 07 May 2014 08:03:39 GMT

There's an overwrite duplicates setting. Look at the smtp documentation.

Sorry cant paste a link on an iPad.

Re: Inbound Email Attachment Version Control?

gregj — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:42:40 GMT

I think I found the setting. That would be a line to add to alfresco-global.properties in the Inbound SMTP section? And then attachments ought to overwrite? (If I am wrong, you may need to perform a flying tackle to stop me. This looks fairly straightforward to implement.)

If I understand, that might be very useful in at least a couple of scenarios I currently envision. In other cases, I may have to refer back to Mr. Pott's idea of customizing.

Thanks!

Re: Inbound Email Attachment Version Control?

gregj — Wed, 07 May 2014 23:40:17 GMT

Adding the setting in alfresco-global.properties file, and then setting up a rule in the subdirectory to assign the versionable aspect makes the mail, itself, do what I'd hoped. I can make some use of that.

But the attachment appeared to do the same thing it did before. So it sounds like I may have to dig into code to get the exact behavior I want.

Again, thanks!

Re: Inbound Email Attachment Version Control?

eihab86 — Fri, 16 May 2014 20:55:42 GMT

The default behavior of Alfresco when you add a new file with the same name of an existing one is to change the name of the added file and not to create new version of it. So I think yes you should modify the code the following link may be useful:

https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/end-user-discussions/alfresco-share/versioning-files-same-name-02042013-1044