What is Techmail-O?

Environment:

Oracle B2C Service, Utilities, Techmail

Resolution:

Techmail retrieves email from your configured outreach (techmail-M) or service mailboxes (techmail-S or techmail-O) to create new incidents or update existing incidents depending on your site configuration. Techmail-O ('On Demand') allows messages to be processed as they come into the mailbox, within a few seconds of arrival. This feature is only available for Oracle hosted service mailboxes and although messages can be processed near real time once they enter the mailbox, this does not affect the route or timing between mail servers. 

For more information about using support channels to satisfy a short response time please review Answer ID 5470: Using support channels to satisfy a short response time.

NOTE:

• The pop_account value in the mailboxes table must be the full name (e.g., popaccount@custhelp.com) with the custhelp.com domain. If the pop_account does not include the custhelp.com domain, then techmail-O will not work at all.
• When techmail pops a mailbox, there is a lock to prevent simultaneous mailbox access by another techmail process (scheduled run or on-demand run).  This prevents duplicate email processing by two techmail processes on a mailbox.  When techmail encounters a mailbox lock, an intermittent, non-impacting, self-correcting Notification for a System Error about a mailbox network error occurs. This is expected behavior and can be disregarded. The Notification has the message format:
  <interface> : Mailbox <pop account>: Network error

Should you choose to use your own mail servers, techmail-S will still process those mailboxes on a 15 minute run-time schedule.