I’ve been doing user admin on our Lotus 6 server for a while now, but am new to scripting/agents. I’ve been searching the web and newsgroups for about two hours looking for direction, but haven’t turned up anything. I have a pretty simple problem that I hope has a simple solution. I apologize if this question has been answered elsewhere… if it has I’d be very happy if you could point it out to me.
I work for a newspaper. We have an e-mail address reporter@domain.com to which reporters can send stories when they’re off-site. I’d like to set up the Lotus server to monitor that account and when mail comes in to save the e-mail (probably just the body of the e-mail) as a .txt file in a specified folder on the server. That folder would then be monitored by our database server which will import the text files into our news database.
Right now we’re doing this with a copy of OE on a seperate computer that checks the account every 5 minutes and if it finds a new message it exports it as a text file. But OE freezes almost daily, and we’re looking for something more reliable. I can’t imagine why Lotus wouldn’t have this capability.
Thank you for your help!