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+ | ====== FETCH EMAIL ====== | ||
+ | Category: Workflow / External\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | =====Description===== | ||
+ | This action retrieves emails from a mail server (IMAP or MS Exchange) and creates a table in which each line corresponds to one email message, and the columns contain various message attributes, such as sender,\\ sent date, subject, message body, etc. | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | =====Use cases===== | ||
+ | Workflows using //Fetch email// can be constructed to retrieve preconfigured emails with attachments, | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | =====Action settings===== | ||
+ | ^ Setting | ||
+ | |Connector< | ||
+ | |Fetch from|Select whether emails will be retrieved from the account' | ||
+ | |Pre-filter|If specific emails are to be retrieved, select the pre-filter options to use. See the " | ||
+ | |Attachments|Select whether attached files will be retrieved as well. See the " | ||
+ | |Options|Select what occurs after an email is fetched. | ||
+ | < | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | ====Pre-filter options==== | ||
+ | ^Option ^Description ^ | ||
+ | |Pre-filter by sender|Check this to fetch email from specific senders, and enter the text to be found within the sender' | ||
+ | |Pre-filter by subject|Check this to fetch email with specific text in the subject line, and enter the text to be found in the\\ //Subject contains//< | ||
+ | |Fetch only unread messages|Check this to fetch only messages that have not yet been read.| | ||
+ | |Messages to fetch|Select whether to retrieve the //Last N messages//< | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ====Attachments options==== | ||
+ | ^Option ^Description ^ | ||
+ | |Fetch attachments|Check this to retrieve files attached to emails.| | ||
+ | |Folder path< | ||
+ | |Save|Select whether attachments to each message will be stored in a temporary subfolder under the folder\\ selected above, or all attachments will be saved together in the folder selected above.\\ | ||
+ | |Enable images in attachments|Check this to allow image attachments to be retrieved.| | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | =====Remarks===== | ||
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+ | Message bodies are limited to the first 1000 characters only. | ||
+ | \\ \\ | ||
+ | ====Attachments==== | ||
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+ | Optionally, the action can also retrieve attachments of the email messages. In this case, a new column named "Path to attachments" | ||
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+ | All attachments can be saved into one folder. In an alternative mode, for each message, a temporary folder is created and all attachments of the message are saved into this temporary folder. | ||
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+ | After processing attachments, | ||
+ | \\ \\ | ||
+ | ====Compatibility==== | ||
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+ | Any email server that supports standard IMAP (without extensions) is supported. | ||
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+ | Supported MS Exchange versions are 2010 and up. | ||
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+ | \\ | ||
+ | =====See also===== | ||
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+ | * [[transformations: |
transformations/fetchemail.txt · Last modified: 2021/06/20 21:43 by craigt