whenever anyone sends me an order off my site i get this email:

--------- FORM DATA STARTS HERE ---------

<First Name>

Potato

<Last Name>

Head

<Email>

[email protected]

<Email Confirmed>

[email protected]

<Address>

Potato House

Highland Road

Northburog

Shiringhamshire

IG7 4FX

Twoodeland

<Refered By>

friend

<Friend's Email>

[email protected]

<DVD>

Saving Private Ryan

<Gift>

portabledvd

<Comments>

make it snappy!

<Terms>

on

<Mobile/Phone Number>

07548 531468

---------- FORM DATA ENDS HERE ----------

Now the email is sent via a free email service so unfortunately i can't edit how it appears. wot i'm wondering is if i can get it so that when i open my database it will run a script that will open my mail application, (in this case it is actually the Mac OS X Jaguar application "Mail") read through the order emails which will always have the subject, "New Order" and import all the data present into the correct fields in a new record for each email. can i do this? if so how? i have encolsed my databases.

by the way, in the order database the "referred by" field should be the email address of the person who referred them.

Version: v6.x

Platform: Mac OS X Jaguar

Hi,

I have never used This but heard good things about it. Allows you to receive the mail into Filemaker. Then I assume it would be a matter of parsing the info out to the correct fields. HTH

Michael

Hi, yes good call!

I've used both the pop3it and SMTPit extensions and they do just what's needed here, plus much more. You can "get mail" on a timed basis (like every five minutes) and do complicated sends even with enclosures. The price is quite reasonable for the functionality - as long as the client is paying :-)

regards, jeff