Hi all, I have a little task here and I am looking for input from fellow professionals as to what the best approach is to accomplish it: I need to setup an e-mail box that will receive requests from people. The e-mail will contain certain key information that will allow a process to pull information from the DB and send an auto reply e-mail with it. I was thinking maybe a filter on our Exchange server or a program that monitors an e-mail box every so often and picks up new requests. Has anyone been through this before? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Other companies like UPS use this system, does anyone know how they do it? What is the industry standard for this kind of thing? Thank you in advance!
Hello, you can do this with an event sink on the mailbox or public folder which receives the mails. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_exch2k_iexstoresyncevents_interface.asp for more information. Basically, you would set up a OnSave event (async is ok for your task). During the event, you would open the element with CDOEX (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_cdo_message_coclass.asp) and extract the information that you need. Then you can delete the mail. Greetings, Henning Krause MVP - Exchange http://www.infinitec.de "Juan Romero" wrote in message news:O%235emeM1FHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... > Hi all, > > I have a little task here and I am looking for input from fellow > professionals as to what the best approach is to accomplish it: > > I need to setup an e-mail box that will receive requests from people. The > e-mail will contain certain key information that will allow a process to > pull > information from the DB and send an auto reply e-mail with it. > > I was thinking maybe a filter on our Exchange server or a program > that monitors an e-mail box every so often and picks up new requests. > > Has anyone been through this before? Any advice would be greatly > appreciated. Other companies like UPS use this system, does anyone know > how > they do it? What is the industry standard for this kind of thing? > > Thank you in advance! > > >
