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Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Madusanka Madusanka
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Learning Force.com Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application Force.com Tools Index

Handling inbound e-mails


In the digital world, e-mail is the most commonly used method of communication since 1993. It has become a significant part of the business world. Therefore, the Force.com platform provides a forceful, secure, and authenticate e-mail service as a part of the application. The Force.com platform handles almost all the messaging tasks for you, and you have to only focus on the business logic. Once you configure the e-mail functionality for executing a particular Apex code logic, your incoming e-mails will use the e-mail service according to the logic that you have implemented. Then the service will send out e-mails accordingly.

The e-mail services of the Force.com platform accept standard e-mails from any e-mail client. This simple e-mail can invoke one or more actions from the e-mail service. The Force.com e-mail feature allows us to apply some additional security controls because this simple e-mail can have an affect on the business functions of the application.

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