Datalist item creation on inbound email

[jjacobwip]

Hi,

I have a requirement to create a new Datalist Item upon receiving an inbound email.

I am aware about Alfresco's Inbound Email configuration but how do I execute custom code to create the datalist item upon receiving an email? Should I be using Metadata Extractors/Rules? IF so, can someone give an idea about how to go about it?


Thanks,
Jerry

[mrogers]

One approach is to write an EmailMessageHandler,  that's the extension point for inbound email.

[jjacobwip]

Thanks. Also came across RMI Email Service but could not find much documentation on that.  Can we use that to poll emails from an Exchange server (MS), that way, take off the burden from Alfresco to act as a Mail server.