4.2.4.2. Email IMAP client Gateway In

This new gateway allows the customer to connect his own mailbox to Babelway, and Babelway poll in a folder of the mailbox. We use the IMAP protocol to connect and fetch mail.
The messages are processed as soon as they arrive.

The specific settings are:

Email provider		The email provider that will allow the system to fetch the mails from
Connection type		The authentication type that will allow the system to connect the customer mail
Host		The email provider host
Username		The username of the customer’s email
Password		The password of the customer’s email in case you are using the credentials connection type
Folder to fetch		The folder that will allow the system to fetch the mails from
OAuth2 provider		In case the OAuth2 connection type, you should select the Microsoft or the Custom
Authorization code URL		The URL of the OAuth2 provider
Access token URl		The URL of the access token
Application ID		The client ID for the access token
Client secret		The secret of the client ID to get the access token
Process all files	By default, we will process all files received. Unselect this box if you wish to define a specific rule.
File name pattern	Pattern (regular expression) for the file name in the email of the file that will become your input message. First match is used.
Other files to save	Allows you to save other files of the email for future use. For every file that you want to save, you have to specify the pattern of the file name in the email and the name of the metadata in which you want to save the content. If one pattern matches multiple files, it is possible to save them all if you guarantee to generate a different metadata name for each. This can be achieved by using the capturing groups of the regex in the metadata names. Ex: if your pattern is (.*\.csv) and your metadata name is attachment-$1, processing with files file1.csv and file2.csv will result in two metadata as follows attachment-file1.csv and attachment-file2.csv .

Here are the steps to configure such gateway.

Firstly, you should select to use the IMAP mail client and select the mail provider either to be Microsoft or custom mail as seen below:

Then you can connect with your credentials directly in Babelway OR via OAuth2 with an access_token.

And in case you select the mail provider to be “Custom”, you should fill the required fields like the host, port, username and the folder to fetch the mails from as seen below:

For the Microsoft mail provider, the fields should be filled as seen below:

 If you change “CONNECTION TYPE” by credentials instead of oauth2, you need to put you email and password as seen below: