E-mail messages

In the E-Mail Listeners application, you can manage your e-mail messages.

Polling of mail servers for email messages
Using email listener definitions, the email Listeners application uses a dedicated cron task to poll the mail server for incoming messages. Cron tasks are Java™ components that you can set to run automatically and on a fixed schedule. For each email listener definition that you create, a specific instance of the cron task is created and associated with the email listener.
Status of e-mail records
Every e-mail record in the staging table has an associated status. These statuses reflect the sequence of actions that the e-mail listener performs on an e-mail record in the staging table.
E-mail attachments
The E-mail Listeners application stores attachments from incoming e-mail on the application server. You can view attachments in the E-mail Processing tab of the E-mail Listeners application.
Message thresholds
If the number of messages waiting to be processed exceeds the high message threshold that you set, the application server limits the addition of new messages in the processing queues.
E-mail formats for e-mail listeners
The E-mail Listeners application can process free form e-mail messages or formatted e-mails. You can configure a system property to determine how some alternative e-mail formats are processed.

Parent topic: E-mail Listeners overview