E-mail enable a SharePoint List

[tastypaprika]

cheers atab0y, i am having this problem too - just created the workflow in Sharepoint Designer 2007 linking the doc library to the issues list in Sharepoint 2007, but nothing happens when i send in an email. I will try this fix.

@Parsa1859, this was happening to me at first - i had to create a basic Sharepoint website first (this is listed in the Admin tasks), then restart IIS before the workflow icons show up in Designer.

[Parsa1859]

For some reason on sharepoint designer when i click FILE then NEW there is no workflows.

[rickyspears]

It has been my experience that workflows on e-mail enabled libraries in SharePoint don't fire on item creation. Have you done anything special to get this to work?

[rickyspears]

After some research, it appears that this may have been broken with Service Pack 1. That may be my problem. Can anyone else confirm this?

[freemailquick]

This is my problem too. When creating an item by sending an email in the library, the workflow process does not start.

[atab0y]

This is correct. Sharepoint SP1 changed the way the workflows work. The infrastructure update fixed this issue but you you have to run a stsadm command to enable it to work with the new methods. The command is (stsadm -o setproperty -pn declarativeworkflowautostarton­emailenabled -pv true) without the parenthesis from the kb articles (953289 and 953749)

[tastypaprika]

@atab0y cheers atab0y, i am having this problem too - just created the workflow in Sharepoint Designer 2007 linking the doc library to the issues list in Sharepoint 2007, but nothing happens when i send in an email. I will try this fix.

[LouLouMH]

@tastypaprika were you able to find a solution? I am having the same problem.

Thanks!

[ginaji]

this is nice and quick and the scope is small which is good, I'm just having trouble reading it.