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Full details for this configuration and can be found in emailAccount, but in this article we will cover some common examples.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Click on Admin->Manage Manage Email Accounts and add a new inbound account,
  2. Add details for a new account - see examples below for POP3 and IMAP; to make this an inbound account, don't tick the Outbound box
  3. Click Test Configuration to ensure the settings are correct and then check
  4. Tick the Enabled check- box, then save any changes. (See examples below for POP3 and IMAP)Click on Admin->System Configuration->System Directories and make a note of the location of the Import file location e.g. C:\opt\phixflow\data\import. Collected email message will appear in folders beneath this directory.

Example Settings using POP3

With POP3 just the main Inbox is polled for messages 

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Example Settings using IMAP / Office 365

 

With the IMAP protocol, a subfolder can be specified

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Set up file collector to load email messages and/or attachments




  1. Send a test email to the account with a data file attached. (Note: If you want to process the message body then sending plain text rather than HTML messages is easier)
  2. Navigate to the folder named "in" within the Import directory and then open the folder that is named with today's date
  3. Within this folder here will be a folder for each message, named with a GUID. Open this folder to view the attachment

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With POP3 just the main Inbox is polled for messages 

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Example Settings using IMAP / Office 365

 

With the IMAP protocol, a subfolder can be specified

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Set up file collector to load email messages and/or attachments

Full details for this configuration and found in fileCollector, but in this article we will go through a typical set up which should cover most cases.

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You don't need to know this to complete the configuration of the file collector, but sometimes you might find it helpful to be able to find the files delivered by the email polling service.

In system configuration you will have, under the tab System Directories, a setting File Upload Directory. For example:

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/opt/phixflow/data/upload

If you have not specified a tag in the subject line of your incoming emails, files will appear in directories:

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/opt/phixflow/data/upload/default/in/[date]/[long ID]

E.g.

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/opt/phixflow/data/upload/default/in/20170426/ab5dcb71868e47c484d6aa78430393d6

If you have specified a tag in the subject line of the emails, files will appear in directories:

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/opt/phixflow/data/upload/[tag]/in/[date]/[long ID]

E.g. with the tag "accdataemail"

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/opt/phixflow/data/upload/accdataemail/in/20170426/eebb98c20ce04246b0cee073a510ccde



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