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Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

matthew_walters — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:00:41 GMT

I've set up Alfresco to accept inbound emails.I would like to do specific actions if the email's header contains certain key-values, such as Auto-Submitted with any value other than 'no'Is it possible for me to get access to the email's header through Alfresco to check what value (if any) it contain

Re: Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

mrogers — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:31:41 GMT

Yes its possible. Normally the first port of call is metadata extraction. There are already metadata extraction for various email mime types. So you can take your header fields and put it into an alfresco property. And then you can have a policy that runs on the value of that property or aspect.

Re: Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

matthew_walters — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:24:41 GMT

Should I be adding this property to the "cm:emailed" aspect in ContentModel.xml?

Re: Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

mrogers — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:44:33 GMT

You could. But I'd be tempted to leave that aspect alone and add your own.

Re: Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

matthew_walters — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:18:00 GMT

I can't seem to get this working, I'm using a email header property that I know has a value when i send a test email:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7

For now, I'm just modifying the cm:emailed aspect, adding the following to it:


<property name="cm:User-Agent">
<title>User-Agent</title>
<type>d:text</type>
</property>
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But after saving and restarting alfresco, when i send a test email, it's not recognizing the new property.
When I click on the email in the folder, I don't see the name "User-Agent" (or the value) in the email data in the properties.
When I look at the email document with the utility program CMIS Workbench, I can see that the property 'User-Agent' is defined for aspect 'cm:emailed', but has no value.

How exactly is this property used? Is there somewhere else where I need to configure what 'cm:User-Agent' refers to in the email header?

Re: Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

mrogers — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:37:54 GMT

Have you configured metadata extraction for your custom property?

You probably also need to configure the metadata extracter.

Add the following line.

User-Agent=cm:User-Agent

to your RFC822MetadataExtracter.properties

Re: Inbound Emails: retrieve values from the header

matthew_walters — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:51:41 GMT

My installation of Alfresco (Community 4.0d) doesn't contain the file RFC822MetadataExtracter.properties

Should I create it and put it on the classpath?