Sending E-mail to an MSMQ Application

E-mail sent by Microsoft Exchange users is routed through their Exchange server to the MSMQ Exchange Connector and then sent on to the input queue of the MSMQ application (see illustration below). The MSMQ application can then read, process, and return a mail message to the Exchange user who sent the mail or forward the mail message (or another mail message) on to the next processing destination.

To send e-mail to an MSMQ application, the Exchange Connector performs the following functions:

• Converts the e-mail to a mail message whose body is in MSMQ mail format.
• Sends the converted mail message to the application input queue of the MSMQ application.

The MSMQ application creates the application input queue that will receive the mail message. The application must specify a queue type when it creates a queue for the Exchange Connector to find the queue.

Additional information can be found in the following:

• To see how MSMQ messages are sent to Exchange users, see Sending MSMQ Mail Messages to an Exchange User.
• To set up the Exchange Connector, see the MSMQ Administrator's Guide.
• To install the MSMQ Mail SDK, see MSMQ Mail SDK.
• To use the API functions and ActiveX components provided by the MSMQ Mail SDK, see the individual reference pages for each item. They can be located by their name or in MSMQ Mail Functions and MSMQ Mail ActiveX Components.