SharePoint 2010/2007 skills - to enable the document library to receive e-mail function

Business Reqirements:

The storage is one of the main features of SharePoint Document Library, you can upload many files, let the document library as a file storage. but you need to manually upload files, is there a more simple way to store files to the document library it ? This is to share the contents of this article.

Solution: Enable the function of the document to receive e-mail.

Steps:

1. Before enable the SharePoint document library to receive in the mail function, you must ensure that the current SharePoint site is already configured a mail receiving function. Open the SharePoint central manager, refer to the figure set

SharePoint 2010 skills - to enable the document library to receive e-mail function

SharePoint 2010 skills - to enable the document library to receive e-mail function

2. Enable document library to receive e-mail function. This setting is also relatively simple.

1. Select Enable Receive e-mail

2. Enter the e-mail address (can be any address)

SharePoint 2010 skills - to enable the document library to receive e-mail function

3. Select a document view, and edit, you will see more mail-related columns, you can choose whether to display the columns in the document library.

SharePoint 2010 skills - to enable the document library to receive e-mail function

4. Open Outlook, send a mail to the email address you just set (testmail@a.com)

SharePoint document libraries to receive e-mail feature is enabled, the following knowledge point document library to receive e-mail features are the advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages:

1. Described above is the most important advantage, you can store the document by e-mail.
2. Partners, external user can upload files not need accounts .

Disadvantages:

1. Because the message is basically through the firewall, so you may be to be spam.
2. Some ill-intentioned people, can upload the virus (which can prevent the type of content to stop.)
3. No permission control, anyone can upload.

You can use the EventHandler to add a unique email address for each document library