E-mail Integration

The iKnowBase E-mail Reader is a separate program that reads e-mails from an e-mail server and stores into the database, ready for further processing.
The e-mail integration components defines e-mail accounts used by the iKnowBase E-mail Reader.

See Development Guide for further information.

Properties

This section describes the properties of an e-mail integration, as shown on the corresponding Edit pane.

Property Description
Subsystem

Select the appropriate subsystem.

Name

Type a name for the e-mail integration point.

Mail protocol

Select between POP3 (default), POP3S (secured), IMAP, IMAPS (secured) or URL.

Mail server URL

The full URL to the mail server from which you want to retrieve the e-mails. Only applicable when mail protocol is URL.

Mail server

The address of the mail server from which you want to retrieve the e-mails. Only applicable when mail protocol is different than URL.

Username to mailserver.

The username used to log in to the mailserver. Only applicable when mail protocol is different than URL

Password

The password used to log in to the mailserver. Only applicable when mail protocol is different than URL

Delay in seconds

Defines the time interval in seconds between each run of the emailreader

Email reader procedure

The name of the PL/SQL procedure/package used for processing the retrieved e-mail.

Active

A check box indicating whether this e-mail account is active, and should be processed by the e-mail reader.

Delete messages after copying

A check box indicating whether the e-mail reader shall delete e-mail from the server after storing it into the database.