Configuring the Email channel
Configure the Email channel in your application by creating different channel interfaces. By configuring an Email channel, you use it as a Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant in your application to route email content and to create top-level cases.
The Email channel uses advanced email handling capability to automatically route the content of received emails in the application. By defining routing conditions, you enable the Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant to automatically determine whether to route the received email content to operators, work queues, whether to open top-level cases, or just send an automatic email reply. A routing condition is set up with email header metadata, and natural language processing (NLP) entities, topics, sentiment, detected language, or a when rule as its criteria. You can also configure multiple email accounts to act as the Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant for the application.
- In Dev Studio, click the name of your application, and then click Channels and interfaces.
- In the Create new channel interface section, click Email.
- In the Email channel name field, enter a name for the channel interface.
- Optional: To distinguish this channel interface from other channel interfaces that use the Email channel, enter short text in the Description field that describes the purpose of the channel interface.
- In the Email handling section, click +Add email account and select an email account to act as the Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant. It must not be associated with another channel interface or case type.
- Optional: Click Verify to verify that you can use the selected email account. If email account verification fails, you can view information about the reason it failed.
- Optional: Repeat steps 5 and 6 to define additional email accounts to act as the Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant for the application.
- Set up routing conditions for intelligent email handling.
- Click Save.