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Collect data from email?

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DMHamm

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Aug 1, 2003
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Please forgive me for asking this before I've learned the program, but I couldn't find anything on this topic in a search and I am hoping I didn't purchase this database for nothing. :)

Here are the tools I have: iBook running 'Tiger', Excel, Dreamweaver, and FMP 7. (Not sure what all I will need.)

Here is what I would like to do:
1. Set up a web form for users to fill out online.
2. Submit that form as an email to a specific account.
3. Have the FMP database 'somehow' read each new email and create a new record from it.

The 'somehow' part is what is I'm stuck on. Can FMP check an email account? Failing that, could I write an Automator script that directs Mail to collect the email and then convert it into something FMP can use? (Maybe using 'Folder Actions' or something along those lines?) I'm just not sure how to start this project - it's for an online seminar registration.

Thank you in advance for any advise you can offer.
 
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