Hi,
This is a requirement for a local community body. They want to be able publish correspondence, this is normally stuff like planning lists, road closures, public transport updates etc. Nowadays this is almost always received by email, sometimes the meat is in an attachment but sometimes the text of the email needs to really be read together with the attachment as neither make sense on their own. Ideally we'd be publishing these emails in as near as possible their original form, showing the original sender, subject and date as well as the body and attachments.
At the moment it's done as a bit of a bodge, the emails are converted to PDF, stored somewhere and the web site shows links with explanatory names. This is labour intensive.
Can anyone think of a dream solution that would allow email to be filed easily and published on the web site? I have a vague and maybe impossible idea of a mail box that could be made visible but read-only on the web site. Then the secretary could add that email account onto her mail client, and simply copy the relevant items.
In various companies we have had to cross this one for our document management systems, and the only solution that worked really well was Lotus Notes.
Any ideas welcome,
thanks
Tony S