Email Gateway

The Email Gateway allows you to initiate scripts by sending an email message to a reserved address. This product can be used to automatically process email messages from customers, or begin processes in response to monitoring applications that send email notifications, etc.

The Email Gateway acts like an SMTP email receiver. However, instead of storing or forwarding email messages it receives, the gateway uses information in the email address to determine what script should be used to process the email message; then, it initiates the processing script immediately. The processing script receives the full contents of the email message. At this point, what the script does to process the email message is entirely up to you. The processing script can respond to the email message, log its contents, initiate error-handling procedures, etc.

The Email Gateway is designed to work with the Vanguard Server™ application.