8.4

Input
Email Input captures all emails and their attachments from the selected inbox, when those emails
correspond to the rules defined in the General tab. If no rule is defined, all emails in the inbox are retrieved.
Emails retrieved using POP3 are deleted from the server, emails retrieved from an Outlook inbox are moved
to the Deleted Items folder by default.
Processing
Depending on the options selected below, each email is converted into a text-only data file, and each
attachment is separated from the email.
Output
Depending on the options, each email is sent as a data file, followed by each of its attachments sequentially.
Technical
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.
Properties
General tab
l Data Location group
l Message body: Select to use the data found in the body of the email.
l 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.
l Unzip attached file: Select to unzip the attached files.
l Zip password: Enter the password required to unzip the attached files (if any). Note that you
can use variables and data selections.
l Conditions group
l “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.