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| <title>Receiving Email.</title> |
| <para> |
| OFBiz can receive email for multiple email addresses and via an MCA can create Communication events |
| for the involved parties of the email. Email attachments, via again the MCA are stored in the content component |
| and can be accessed via the content Id. Examples of an MCA can be found in the Party and Content Component. |
| </para> |
| <para> |
| To receive email a single POP/IMAP mailbox is polled at regular intervals. This is configured in the |
| ${ofbiz install dir}/framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml file. Any email address you want to be handled |
| by OFBiz need to be forwarded to this single mailbox by an external mail server. OFBiz then will try to match the |
| email addresses to existing parties and will create a single communication event referring to the found parties. |
| </para> |
| <para> |
| If an incoming email address cannot be matched against a party, the communication event will get a special status |
| and the receiving party can either delete the communication event or can ask the system to automatically create a party |
| from the incoming email address. |
| </para> |
| <para> |
| By default the configuaration file has the email poller commented out. The parameters to this function are pretty self |
| explanatory. |
| </para> |
| </section> |
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