Employee receives new mail from, or sends new mail from outlook to, an existing contact
SuiteCRM pulls new mail using IMAP
Employee needs to open mail in SuiteCRM and import it manually for it to show up in the contacts history
SuiteCRM should be able to do this easily, as it has all the required information available. It would just need to check the mail address for any existing contacts (or accounts, leads, etc.), and put in the association.
I understand that this functionality is already there for group mail accounts with the “Import Emails Automatically” checkbox.
I was not able to produce the wanted behavior with workflows (maybe because of lacking experience).
One approach I can think of is to set up the employee’s personal mail accounts as group mail accounts, and configure the permissions so the users can only access their own group mail account. What are the downsides to this approach?
1. Employee receives new mail from, or sends new Email from outlook to, an existing contact
Answer:- You can use BCC Archive/ Email Archive Plugin for sending email from any device and it will automatically sync in the SuiteCRM.
2. SuiteCRM pulls new Email using IMAP
Answer:- Yes you also can set multiple IMAP settings using the plugin.
3. Employee needs to open mail in SuiteCRM and import it manually for it to show up in the contacts history
Answer:- The email received on the inbound email address will be automatically attached to the appropriate customer history.
Example:- Suppose one of your valuable clients shares an email with you and at that time you are using your mobile phone. You can reply to the client from the mobile platform. And the conversation will be saved in your CRM software. All you have to do is just use bcc-archive@yourdomain.com (just example) in either BCC, CC, or From and even email subject or body.