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SPEmailEventReceiver Class

Provides a method for trapping the event when a list receives an e-mail message.

System.Object
  Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEmailEventReceiver

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)
Available in Sandboxed Solutions: No
public class SPEmailEventReceiver

An incoming e-mail event receiver must derive from this class and override the EmailReceived method.

The following code example shows how to use the SPEmailEventReceiver class in an event handler that responds to e-mail messages received in a list by adding an item to the list.

This example requires using directives (Imports in Visual Basic) for the Microsoft.SharePoint and Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespaces.

namespace Example_Namespace
{
    public class Email_Handler: SPEmailEventReceiver
    {
        public override void EmailReceived(
            SPList oList,
            SPEmailMessage oMessage,
            string strReceiverData)
        {
            SPListItem oListItem = oList.Items.Add();
            oListItem["Title"] = oMessage.Headers["Subject"];
            oListItem["Body"] = oMessage.HtmlBody;
            oListItem.Update();
        }
    }
}
NoteNote

Certain objects implement the IDisposable interface, and you must avoid retaining these objects in memory after they are no longer needed. For information about good coding practices, see Disposing Objects.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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- Cloud2050.com
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SPEmailEventReceiver Tips
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The email event feature can only be done in the web scope. Otherwise there will be no possibility of debugging event code.
How to customize Sharepoint E-Mail-Enabled document library using SPEmailEventReceiver
Hi, I wrote a short case study about how to customize incoming e-mails using SPEmailEventReceiver and how to debug it.
http://solutiondumps.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-customize-sharepoint-e-mail.html