Outlook Add-in - How it Works - Q & A

Modified on Tue, 20 Feb at 10:44 PM

  1. How often is the LawMaster Outlook plugin active? Is it scanning Sent Items all the time, or once every 2 hours?
    1. The LawMaster Outlook Add-in is always active but it doesn't scan for e-mails.
  2. How does it know if there is a new email?
    1. The LawMaster Outlook Add-in doesn't scan the folders, so the LawMaster Outlook Add-in doesn't check if emails have arrived. The LawMaster Outlook Add-in reads email only if an email is being sent or drag-dropped to LawMaster. In such scenario also it doesn't scan the whole mailbox but only the specific selected emails. In case of sent e-mails it only checks the e-mail that is being sent and doesn't scan the folder. Whenever an e-mail is sent Outlook raises the Application_ItemSend event. The LawMaster Outlook Add-in subscribes to this event and does the activity of saving/deleting emails whenever that event is raised for an email item.

  3.  How does it know if the email is already linked to LawMaster?
    1. LawMaster creates a hash for a selected email which is based on To, from, cc, subject, body, attachments fields and compares it with the hashes in the Database to determine if email is linked or not.

  4. What does it do with each "new" Sent Email? Does it grab the basic metadata, and then run an SQL query to see if that email already exists in LawMaster?
    1. Yes, the methodology is mentioned above in step 2.
  5. Will the query take longer if there are 1000's of emails in Sent Items?
    1. The LawMaster Outlook Add-in doesn't scan the whole Sent Items folder, so this will not have any impact.
  6. Are there any activities that the LawMaster Outlook Add-in performs on a regular basis?
    1. Yes, Bring-up synchronisation with Outlook tasks. The interval of this synchronisation depends on the value set in Parameters > Miscellaneous > Outlook Integration > Bring-ups synchronisation timer. This synchronisation can also be disabled at resource level from LawMaster > Maintain User Security > Modify User > Outlook Task Synchronisation

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