Uso de correo electrónico para procesar aprobaciones

Question

Una cosa que viene a mí desde la parte superior es la capacidad de responder a una notificación por correo electrónico para aprobarlo o negarlo.Este comportamiento sería similar a muchas listas de correo fueron presionadas a la respuesta para aprobar la suscripción o enviar a una dirección de correo electrónico diferente para negar.¿Cómo haría esto en un entorno de intercambio y ASP.NET?¿Hay algunos ejemplos de otra persona haciendo esto?

Actualmente hago esto a través de un enlace en el correo electrónico, pero si están en sus teléfonos o fuera de la oficina, no pueden acceder a la aplicación Intranet.

Answer 1

You'll have to monitor the incoming mailbox and respond to keywords in the email (subject or body). If you want to perform multiple actions (ie approve or deny), the simplest way is to create mailto links in the email body. That way, the mailto links will include your keywords (approve, deny, whatever) in the subject line when clicked.

Answer 2

I built an application like this about six years ago. Basically, we configured the mail server to execute a script when a certain address received an email.

So, if the mail server received an email at trigger@domain.com, then the mail server executes the local program. You can wire this to ASP.NET by having the executed script issue and http request to the ASP.NET application.

The specific implementation is going to be dependent on your mail server and the software you use to manage it.

Answer 3

I know that you´re using Exchange and maybe this answer is not quite helpful for you. I used a custom email server once for doing something similar to what you´re saying. The implementation was based on this C# email server.