Emailing to Custom Folders Types in Alfresco
I recently had an issue come across my virtual desk that turned out a little more complex than I originally thought. Before I begin this was done in Alfresco Enterprise 4.1.2 but I would expect it would work with any version above 4.0 (probably anything above 3.2). I have a client which is sending emails directly into Alfresco. Originally the plan was to send the emails into a specific folder within a site and then move the emails to the correct location. I was asked if they could just email the documents into the correct location. Didn't seem like an issue to me so I just updated the view for my custom folder types to show the DB ID of the node and viola everything should be kosher. It didn't work out that way; the first email that was sent in almost immediately returned with an error message like the following: 5.3.0 - Other mail system problem 554-"Email message handler was not found for node type 'eha:myCustomFolderType'." (delivery attempts: 0)