Trevor:
I as well was trying to do that and consulted with our Microsoft reps
who claimed it was not possible, or would require to much custom coding
(which I do not have the knowhow for). HOWEVER, I did try to research
it and found the code for the existing email event handlers...If it
helps you at all, I have included it below.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace TaskHandler
{
public class SimpleHandler:SPEmailEventReceiver
{
public override void EmailReceived(SPList list,
Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPEmailMessage emailMessage, string
receiverData)
{
SPListItem item = list.Items.Add();
item["Title"] = emailMessage.Headers["Subject"];
item["DueDate"] =
System.DateTime.Parse(emailMessage.Headers["Date"]).AddDays(21);
item["Description"] = emailMessage.HtmlBody;
item.Update();
}
}
}
If you are successful in creating this application, I would love to see
it! It would be very useful for me!
Thank you,
Mike
Securian Financial Group
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Brian Meinertz
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Mail Enabling a SharePoint List
Trevor
I believe there is a product available from Macroview
<http://www.macroview.com.au/WisdomMessage.htm> called WISDOM Message,
which supports drag-drop and metadata capture from Outlook.
Haven't used this tool myself, but it may be also worth investigating.
Cheers
Brian
Vivid Group
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Trevor Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2008 7:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Mail Enabling a SharePoint List
Hi John,
No we hadn't considered that option ... I'll go and do some research on
that approach.
Thanks,
Trevor
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Hodgson, John
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2008 10:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Mail Enabling a SharePoint List
BTW you can write custom email handlers for SharePoint...is that being
considered?
JohnH(HP)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Trevor Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Mail Enabling a SharePoint List
Hi Ishai,
Thanks for that. I guess also because of your suspicion (which I'll try
and verify), that the event handlers don't fire on inbound e-mail, the
third option is likely to not be a very good useful either ...
With regard to processing outside of SharePoint, I was going to write a
relatively simple Windows Service that monitors a mailbox, rather than a
solution embedded within Exchange Server infrastructure itself ... I've
more expertise with writing Windows Services than with working within
Exchange events etc ...
Cheers,
Trevor
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ishai Sagi
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2008 9:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Mail Enabling a SharePoint List
I'd be weary of the first one, as I had heard (not experimented though -
so you'd better test it yourself and not take my word) that event
handlers do not get triggered by the incoming email.
As for the second option, if you have exchange server and experience in
developing for it you can do that on the server, or otherwise you will
have to code against the smtp service.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Trevor Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2008 9:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Ishai Sagi
Subject: [OzMOSS] Mail Enabling a SharePoint List
Hi All,
We are designing a SharePoint application and we intended to use an
e-mail enabled list as the recipient of initial requests. While doing
some initial prototypes I've found that it appears the only SharePoint
list types that can be e-mail enabled are:
* Document Library
* Announcements List
* Calendar List
* Discussion Board
In our initial prototyping we used a Document Library, and experimented
with the various settings (i.e. save original e-mail, create folder for
documents, store in root folder etc). None of the setting combinations
seem to deliver just what we want. The e-mails we receive consist of a
plain text body with an image attachment, both of which we would like
saved, and the attributes of the item need to be populated from values
parsed out of the e-mail. The outcome we would like to achieve is that
inbound e-mail ends up as:
* A list item with attributes filled in with values parsed from
the text body of the e-mail.
* The item should have two attachments, the original plain text
body of the e-mail and the picture attachment from the e-mail
I guess my question is how would you recommend we approach this.
Alternatives I can see are potentially viable:
* Write an event receiver to perform the appropriate parsing /
conversion
* Parse the e-mails outside of SharePoint, and programmatically
create the items in a custom list with the appropriate attachments
* Develop a custom list - sounds complex and I'm not even sure
how much more simply it would allow us to do what we want
I'd really welcome some advice on the best recommended approach to this
...
Cheers,
Trevor Andre
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