The Retrieve Email task can access a standard POP-3 or IMAP Mail Box and retrieve emails stored on it. Messages can be filtered using a variety of criteria including the from-address, to-address, subject and message.

The attachments and message body contents for any emails (which are retrieved), can be stored in a specified Destination Directory. Subsequent tasks may then access the output File List variables to process the attachments (specified on the “Downloaded Attachments Variable”) or message body files (specified on the “Downloaded Message Body Files Variable”).

The details (for example, subject, from address, sent date, recipients, etc) for each retrieved message can be stored in the Email List output variable. This variable will also store the file path locations of where the attachments and message bodies were saved. The Email List variable can then be used in a For Each loop to process each message individually. Refer to the Email List topic for more information.