I've configured my development farm and custom list to receive emails but I wish to populate the custom list's columns. Is it possible without an event receiver to populate the columns with data from some processing of the email or metadata within the .eml file? Also when an email has attachments and the list is configured to save attachments within the root how can I determine which documents are linked to an email?

Hi, I think there is no other way to get metadata from email to the email enabled list except using EventReceiver. You could use the SPEmailEventReceiver class and override the EmailReceived method to parse the email message and populate the library fields with data from email. For more information, please refer to: http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/creating-a-simple-email-receiver-for-a-document-library/ You can sort your document library view by E-mail subject, you will find the attachments about an email by E-mail subject. Or you can set Save all attachments in folders grouped by e-mail subject in incoming email settings. Hope the information can help you. Xue-Mei Chang TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Xue-Mei Chang