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Originally posted by: ryanmacdonald

Hi Everyone,

We're looking to find an alternative solution to the following process we currently use to trigger a daily job:
1. Email notification that yesterdays data is ready is received in a group email box.
2. Outlook script is triggered when this email notification is received; based on the title of the email.
3. Script creates a txt file with yesterdays date.
4. A Cronscript is scheduled to look for the txt file created in step 3; when found it launches the daily job.

Is there a way to replace steps 1-3 in lavastorm? i.e. Create a loop to check for new records, if new records exist then the job runs?

Any thoughts or ideas on how to do this would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time!

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Originally posted by: ltolleson

Hi Ryan,

Currently LAE does not have a standard node or operator to read emails. I have not researched it, but I would guess there are 3rd party Java or Python libraries that could be used to create a custom node. I can see this being a very useful node and something that Lavastorm could build in the future.

Larry

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Originally posted by: ejones

I've seen a Python node that uses the imaplib and email libraries. The node could download emails and read the attachments.