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[Juan Romero]

Hi all,

I have a little task here and I am looking for input from fellow programmers
as to what the best approach is to accomplish it:

I need to setup an e-mail box that will receive requests from people. The
e-mail will contain certain key information that will allow me to pull
information from the DB and send them an auto reply e-mail with it.

This is an enterprise wide application so making Outlook addins is not an
option. I was thinking maybe a filter on our Exchange server or a program
that monitors an e-mail box every so often and picks up new requests.

Has anyone been through this before? Any advice would be greatly
appreciated. Other companies like UPS use this system, does anyone know how
they do it? What is the industry standard for this kind of thing?

Thank you in advance!

[Graham Parker [MVP]]

Hi Juan,

Try looking at www.slipstick.com , if you're using Exchange Server then
there are several libraries that you can use that will allow you
to develop against your exchange server box.

Good Luck.
Graham Parker.

"Juan Romero" <No****@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have a little task here and I am looking for input from fellow
programmers as to what the best approach is to accomplish it:

I need to setup an e-mail box that will receive requests from people. The
e-mail will contain certain key information that will allow me to pull
information from the DB and send them an auto reply e-mail with it.

This is an enterprise wide application so making Outlook addins is not an
option. I was thinking maybe a filter on our Exchange server or a program
that monitors an e-mail box every so often and picks up new requests.

Has anyone been through this before? Any advice would be greatly
appreciated. Other companies like UPS use this system, does anyone know
how they do it? What is the industry standard for this kind of thing?

Thank you in advance!

[Juan Romero]

I think I can figure out how to implement it, what my question really is, is
what is the best approach to this? and if anyone out there has worked on a
project like this before, what method did they use and how did it work out?

Thank you!

"Graham Parker [MVP]" <www.vbug.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ek**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi Juan,

Try looking at www.slipstick.com , if you're using Exchange Server then
there are several libraries that you can use that will allow you
to develop against your exchange server box.

Good Luck.
Graham Parker.

"Juan Romero" <No****@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi all,

I have a little task here and I am looking for input from fellow
programmers as to what the best approach is to accomplish it:

I need to setup an e-mail box that will receive requests from people. The
e-mail will contain certain key information that will allow me to pull
information from the DB and send them an auto reply e-mail with it.

This is an enterprise wide application so making Outlook addins is not an
option. I was thinking maybe a filter on our Exchange server or a program
that monitors an e-mail box every so often and picks up new requests.

Has anyone been through this before? Any advice would be greatly
appreciated. Other companies like UPS use this system, does anyone know
how they do it? What is the industry standard for this kind of thing?

Thank you in advance!