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shantanub
June 3, 2025
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Email Automation in Appian

  • June 3, 2025
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Hi All,

We have requirement to create cases based on the mails received in one or more mailboxes in Appian. Kindly guide us on use case or plugin which will help us to achieve this solution. In addition, we have to classify mails based on the subject line of the mails.

Best answer by mathieud0001

I recommend using the Graph Mail Poller (if your org is on M365) for injestng email.

community.appian.com/.../msgraph-email-poller

As for classifying, you could use the AI Email Classification Smart Service.

docs.appian.com/.../Classify_Emails_Smart_Service.html

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mathieud0001
June 3, 2025

I recommend using the Graph Mail Poller (if your org is on M365) for injestng email.

community.appian.com/.../msgraph-email-poller

As for classifying, you could use the AI Email Classification Smart Service.

docs.appian.com/.../Classify_Emails_Smart_Service.html

shantanub
shantanubAuthor
June 3, 2025

Thanks for quick update. Our current project dont have AI option enabled, then whether we can use Graph Mail Poller for classifying mails based on subject line using expression rule?

mathieud0001
June 3, 2025

If you don't have access to the AI features then, yea you would have to use an expression rule.

Appian actually has a doc page dedicated to managing incoming mail.

docs.appian.com/.../email-in-appian.html

shubhama926776
June 3, 2025

[mention:f3af4000788442b58dc8735098166d94:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]  
Currently, in one of our projects, we are using the Mail Poller Plugin to read emails in Appian.
We are reading incoming emails with attachments in Appian.

The plugin stores email metadata (like subject and body) in a table. Based on business logic (implement this logic in an expression rule), you can classify the email.

Remember: When using this plugin, do not change the name of the table APP_MAIL_POLLER, where the smart service stores email metadata after reading an email.

shantanub
shantanubAuthor
June 3, 2025

Thanks for the quick reply. In that case, Mail Poller will support email attachment as well, then we will check by doing some POC.

shubhama926776
June 3, 2025

Yes right!

Let me know you stuck somewhere.