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How does servicenow detect whether a received email is New/Reply/Forward

rev3
Mega Expert

Hello All,

When Servicenow receives emails, how does it validate if its reply or new or a forward email. I know field "receive type" is populated with new/Reply /Forward. But i want to know how it detects.

My dev instance received a reply email but was detected as new instead of reply.

Any knowledge will be helpful.

Thank You

7 REPLIES 7

Michael Ritchie
ServiceNow Employee

Its based on configured system properties:


Inbound Email Actions - ServiceNow Wiki


Hi Michael,



Yes, I expected this would be. Thank you for your response. I am not sure why servicenow detected it as new. So my subject is like this: RE: Service Request : FW:   TST1 XXX . Could you help me in troubleshooting this please.



Thank You


Please go through this, Inbound Email Actions - ServiceNow Wiki .


In this please read 3.3 and 3.4 you can understand very easily.


tony_barratt
ServiceNow Employee

Hi Rev,



I see you have had some sound advice already, however I suggest taking a look at graphic below.



Best Regards



Tony



Inbound Email Actions - ServiceNow Wiki


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