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Scraping information from email to workflow

I have an email delivered to a specific inbox which contains a number of fields I need to scrape.

The fields will be subsequently fed into a workflow system.

For example:

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: New starter notification

Message:

Name: John Smith
Start Date: 01/12/2016
End Date: 31/12/2016
..

Is there software which could automatically listen to or poll the email account for new emails, and extract these fields (John Smith, 01/12/2016, 31/12/2016) or dump the entire email into a text file for further scraping?

Alternatively, a workflow system which can interpret emails out of the box.

Other information:

  • The format of the email is fixed.
  • Email server is Exchange Server 2013.
  • The system sending the email does not provide an API or web service to extract the information.
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