Is this possible to send and store emails inside a list and map the email fields inside the list fields?

Question

I am working on SharePoint server 2013. and we want to have the ability for users to send suggestions by email and get these emails saved inside a SharePoint list. now i know that each list can have an in-coming email settings, where you can basically send emails to a list. but i have these questions before start working on this:-

1. can i map the email fields mainly the email's "From","Subject" & "Body" fields into the list fields.. by saying for example that the email "From" field should be saved inside a site column named "EmailFrom"??

2. In addition to mapping these fields , can i save the original email as an attachment inside the list item? so when user send an email to a list the email got saved as an attachment inside the list item?

Thanks

Answer 1

1. Yes, you can grab the mail headers using an Event Handler. This will fire when an email is received.

   public override void EmailReceived(SPList list, SPEmailMessage emailMessage, String receiverData) { SPListItem newItem = list.Items.Add(); newItem["EmailFrom"] = emailMessage.Headers["From"] newItem["EmailTo"] = emailMessage.Headers["To"] // etc, etc.... newItem.Update(); }

See here: https://jasear.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/enable-incoming-emails-on-a-custom-sharepoint-list/

2. Yes, attachments can be saved also. If they're failing, check out the following.

See here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx#section6