Receiving / enabling emails in the list or library

Hello All,

Today I am going to discuss something about the receiving emails in the list. Before that let me discuss some of the points.

You can receive the emails in one of the following lists.
(1) Document Library
(2) Announcement
(3) Calendar
(4) Discussion
(5) Blog

But before enabling email support in the list, you need to enable incoming email support in the central administration. Under operations->Incoming mail settings.

We will go for enabling for document library.

So first go and check for the incoming email options in central administration. Then only you can see incoming mail settings options under communication section for the document library.

Go to the incoming email settings.

Select allow this document library to receive emails.

Specify the email address for this document library. If anyone sends mail to this email address, mail will be coming down to this document library.

Keep save all attachments in rootfolder and at last keep Accept e-mail messages from any sender options selected.

I also want to give more highlight on one important email handler class. Once you have the document library enabled with the email receiver, then there is one class which you can use and override its method.

The class is SPEmailEventReceiver and you need to override its EmailReceived method. When email is received by the list and event handler is attached to the list. Here is a code which extracts the subject and body from the email and adds the item to the list.

public class EmailHandler: SPEmailEventReceiver
{
public override void EmailReceived(
SPList objList,
SPEmailMessage objMessage,
string strReceiverData)
{
SPListItem objListItem = objList.Items.Add();
objListItem["Title"] = objMessage.Headers["Subject"];
objListItem["Body"] = objMessage.HtmlBody;
objListItem.Update();
}
}

That’s it. Enjoy email receiving.