The SMTP connector will process e-mails send to it.

Features

Some of the features of the SMTP connector include:

• E-mail processing
• Attachment processing.

Content Retrieved

The SMTP connector retries several types of documents, listed bellow are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.

Include

• E-mails

Limitations 

Due to design implementation, SMTP connector has the following limitations:

• Distributed crawling.
  • Due the nature of the SMTP library, distributed crawling is not supported.
• Traditional Full/Incremental crawling.
  • The connector works by setting up a SMTP that will listen to incoming e-mails and will sent them to Aspire for processing.
• Access Control Lists.
  • All the incoming e-mails are assumed as public

Future Development Plan 

The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:

no features to be implemented in the near future.

Anything we should add? Please let us know.