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6.1 Detailed Directions
This section contains detailed information on the properties of the available input tasks. It contains the
following topics:
• Email Input Task Properties (Page 126)
• Folder Capture Input Task Properties (Page 128)
• Folder Listing Input Task Properties (Page 127)
• FTP Input Task Properties (Page 129)
• HTTP Client Input Task Properties (Page 130)
• HTTP Server Input Task Properties (Page 131)
• Create File Input Task Properties (Page 132)
(Page 127)
• LPD Input Task Properties (Page 133)
• Serial Input Task Properties (Page 134)
• Telnet Input Task Properties (Page 134)
• WinQueue Input Task Properties (Page 135)
6.1.1 Email Input Task Properties
Email input tasks retrieve data through a Microsoft Outlook or POP3 mail client. With Outlook, the email
account of the current user on the local computer is used. Note that PlanetPress Watch/Server must run using
the same account as the current user, otherwise the task will fail to retrieve the messages.
Emails retrieved using POP3 are deleted from the mail server. Also note that all the messages retrieved using
Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express are deleted from the current user’s account. To keep copies of the
deleted emails, use the Move message after processing to folder option.
Bear in mind that emails can be selected based on subject and sender or recipient address.
If you use Email input tasks to capture data encoded using a Double-Byte character set (such as those used
for Japanese or Chinese, for instance), it is preferable to use attachments rather than the email body to carry
the data from its source to the input task, as data corruption is less likely to occur using this method.
The following describes those properties that are specific to email input tasks. For information on those
properties shared by various types of tasks, such as Other and On error properties, refer to Configurations,
Processes and Tasks.
Email input task properties are as follows:
General tab
Message body: Select to use the data found in the body of the email.
Attached file: Select to use the data found in the email’s attachment. If both the Message body and
Attached files options are selected, the message’s body and the message’s attachment are treated as
separate data files and processed one after the other.
Unzip attached file: Select to unzip the attached files.
Zip password: Enter the password required to unzip the attached files (if any). Note that you can use
variables and data selections.
Conditions group
“Subject” contains: Select to limit those messages used by this task to those with a specific subject. The
subject you enter in the box below can include variables and wildcards.
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