Storing E-mails the "Old Way"
Some organizations receive a very low volume of e-mails that may have very large attachments, like CAD drawings. They cannot yet justify adding the Connect to Outlook module. Using the full Active Import module, they can setup a job to pull e-mails from a folder in Outlook, index them, and store them in the correct file cabinet. You are also able you store the attachments separately as a new document.
The other side is when the Exchange Server is becoming overloaded and e-mails need to be moved into a file cabinet. Using this method with Active Import allows the user to move thousands of E-mail simply by moving them within Outlook to a folder monitored by Active Import. The Active Import job imports the e-mails, while the user walks away. Personally I have move over 19,000 e-mails, in one batch, into at DW file cabinet using this method.
While I like the Connect to Outlook module and use it multiple times every day, there are times that the "old way" works almost as efficiently for non-standard storage of e-mails.
Jon Slough
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For this use case Connect to Mail would be the right module for you.
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AdminMario Schwarz
(Admin, DocuWare)
commented
Thank you for your idea. Do I understand you correctly, that the large size of the attachment is the problem why this would be better "the old way" than with Connect to Outlook?