List Email Connector

Part 1 - WSP Deploy on SharePoint

• Download the Solution package from here
• Extract the contents from the zip file
• Upload the farm solution beyondintranet.listemailconnector.wsp and deploy it to a particular web application
• Navigate to a subsite for which you want the lists to be updated via emails
• On this subsite, Activate the feature "BeyondIntranet.ListEmailConnector" from the Site Settings > Manage Site Features page
• On activating the feature, navigate to the Site Contents page and look for a list named "Email Connector Configuration"
• In this list, Enter the:
  • ListName: Provide the list name for which you want the email alerts (mandatory field).
  • Field Name Send Email To: Specify the field Name which holds the recipients username to whom the email is to be sent. For instance – “Assigned To” or “Members” (mandatory field)
  • Field Name Update by Email: The field which is to be updated as comments from the body of the email read from the mailbox. For instance - Comments, Discussion (Note: This field should be multiline field with “Allow Append changes” enabled in the list settings - Mandatory field)
  • Fields to include in Email: Any other fields from the list which you want in your email Body. (mandatory Field)

Part 2 - Configure Task in Task Scheduler

• Open and update the Appconfig.xml file and update the username, password for the email, mail-exchange server, root site url, port number and SharePoint credentials
• Update the Path of the Project in the batch file task scheduler configuration.bat
• Run the updated batch file named task scheduler configuration.bat from the extracted folder on your SharePoint server to create a task in the Task Scheduler on your SharePoint server