Is there any way to use BizTalk to process incoming email? I see lots of inf
o about sending out emails, but what about receiving emails?

Thanks!

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There may be many different options, but I have the following ideas:
1) Write or buy a custom adapter which polls specific mailbox for new
message.
2) Writer your own event sink in your Exchange server to pass inbound
emails to BizTalk server if you're using Exchange server.
3) If your mail server provides any way to save emails in the file system,
then you can create a FILE receive port which takes the email which is a
MIME message and process the MIME message using a pipeline with MIME
pipeline component in it. However it will not give you full flexibility to
get all information you need. For example, you may not be able to see what
was the From/To field of the email.

I personally prefer you create/buy an adapter for this.

For example, http://www.topxml.com is one of the company who provide an
adapter(not sure 100%) which has an ability to read emails from a POP3
account. I searched it from the Google.

Thanks,
Sung-Hwa Jin

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Subject: Using BizTalk to Process Incoming Email
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:46:13 -0700
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Is there any way to use BizTalk to process incoming email? I see lots of
info about sending out emails, but what about receiving emails?

Thanks!


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EBusiness Server Team

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There are two ways:
1)Buy an adaptader(really dont know if work), or a pop3 client
component(easymail, chilkat) and write a windows service.
2)Write a mail reader that can interact with an outlook client using MAPI to
take the atach from a mail and put into the inbound folder (receive
function). And then add to scheduled task.

"Sung-Hwa Jin [MSFT]" <shjin@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:YNTqlPkLEHA.2640@cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl...
> There may be many different options, but I have the following ideas:
> 1) Write or buy a custom adapter which polls specific mailbox for new
> message.
> 2) Writer your own event sink in your Exchange server to pass inbound
> emails to BizTalk server if you're using Exchange server.
> 3) If your mail server provides any way to save emails in the file system,
> then you can create a FILE receive port which takes the email which is a
> MIME message and process the MIME message using a pipeline with MIME
> pipeline component in it. However it will not give you full flexibility to
> get all information you need. For example, you may not be able to see what
> was the From/To field of the email.
>
> I personally prefer you create/buy an adapter for this.
>
> For example, http://www.topxml.com is one of the company who provide an
> adapter(not sure 100%) which has an ability to read emails from a POP3
> account. I searched it from the Google.
>
> Thanks,
> Sung-Hwa Jin
>
> --------------------
> Thread-Topic: Using BizTalk to Process Incoming Email
> thread-index: AcQsf4hEaOx7fPWgSoWc290oTuMkQg==
> X-WN-Post: microsoft.public.biztalk.framework
> From: examnotes <bryant@suespammers.org>
> Subject: Using BizTalk to Process Incoming Email
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:46:13 -0700
> Lines: 3
> Message-ID: <BE9EB56C-14CC-45BE-A9E6-63A4BC7E867D@microsoft.com>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="Utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
> Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
> Importance: normal
> Priority: normal
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.0
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.biztalk.framework
> Path: cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl
> Xref: cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl microsoft.public.biztalk.framework:2906
> NNTP-Posting-Host: tk2msftcmty1.phx.gbl 10.40.1.180
> X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.biztalk.framework
>
> Is there any way to use BizTalk to process incoming email? I see lots of
> info about sending out emails, but what about receiving emails?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> EBusiness Server Team

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For which version of BizTalk Server?

"Bryant Likes" <bryant@suespammers.org> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to use BizTalk to process incoming email? I see lots of
info about sending out emails, but what about receiving emails?
>
> Thanks!

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