Robot Email Decoder

This robot is intended to be the first step in a multi step process that is triggered by an incoming e-mail.

"Parse email" enabled in Control Room

With this configuration option enabled, your robot will automatically get the parsed version of the e-mail into the email input Work Item variable. Place where you can find the email[body] additionally parsed content as well. (auto detects JSON/YAML format)

The e-mail file attachments can be discovered and retrieved as normal input Work Item files. Additionally, you can find two other special files:

• __mail.html: the HTML content of the sent e-mail
• __raw_mail: the raw data of the entire e-mail

For backwards compatibility, you'll still get the old deprecated parsedEmail payload variable, but it contains the parsedEmail[Body] only, as the rest is found in the recommended to be used email variable.

Raw e-mail is deprecated

With "Parse email" unchecked, the robot will decode the raw e-mail data from the input Work Item and provide it in a more convenient format for the following steps to use:

• E-mail file attachments are converted to files (in the output Work Item)
• E-mail headers are provided as key-value pairs right in the parsedEmail payload variable, e.g.:
  • From
  • To
  • Date
  • Message-ID
  • Subject
  • Has-Attachments
• E-mail body is additionally parsed and available as parsedEmail[Body]
• Original raw data is still available as rawEmail

Installation

Configure the first step of your process to use the robot from the public Git repository and as task, the recommended Decode Parsed Email To Work Item one.

Then test it by starting the process with an e-mail. We recommend enabling the "Parse email" configuration option in Control Room, more details in this article.