Drag and Drop an email to SharePoint Shared Lists...Please help

[DavidF]

Okay, I already know that you are not able to drag and drop an email message
into a SharePoint Document Library or any other SharePoint option available.
It is my understanding that Public folders will eventually disappear (in the
not too distant future) and not be supported and that it should be replaced
using SharePoint. My organization is required to keep a lot of the email
that comes in from various agencies so each agency has its own folder where
their incoming email is stored in a Public folder. These folders are
available to workers with the necessary priviledges to view them. If Public
folders are going the way of the dinosaur and SharePoint does not allow the
drag and drop into a Document Library, then how can I keep the save emails
available to my fellow office workers.

I think that MS needs to give the Doc Libs drag and drop charastics when
they are connected to Outlook from a SharePoint site.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Document libraries in SPS 2007 are not 2 way - they may be in future
versions. However - is it the best way to archive the messages? Discussion
lists are 2 -way sync and you can drag mail to them (however, it's handled
more like a forwarded message, with the header in the body and the signature
added). Discussion lists can be mail enabled, giving you additional
automated options.

 

[DavidF]

Diane,
Thank you for your response, I will give the Discussion list a try and see
if that will do the trick. I will let you know.

Thanks

david f

 

[web.dev.services]

Is it also possible to bring up / enter meta-data e.g. Company /
Contact for each mail dropped into the Discussion List folder?

 

[Dave]

You may try 3rd party tools such as
http://paradisoft.com/outlook-to-sharepoint.asp
which allow copying e-mail messages from Outlook to SharePoint