Many systems can send e-mails. But isn't it annoying when they are broadcast only? When I get sent a message, I want to be able to reply to it. E-mail should be a conversation, not a fire-and-forget distribution mechanism.
So what happens when you reply to a ServiceNow e-mail? It gets categorized and then processed according to the settings in Inbound Email Actions.
Tip
Lots of information is available in the product documentation: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/helsinki-servicenow-platform/page/administer/notification/concept/c_InboundEmailActions.html.
Every two minutes, the platform runs the POP Reader scheduled job. It connects to the e-mail account specified in the properties and pulls them all into the Email table, setting the Mailbox to be Inbox.
This fires an event called email.read
, which in turn starts the classification of the e-mail. It uses a series of logic...