Configure incoming email on SharePoint document library.. In Simple 3 Steps

1.     Activate the  SMTP feature on the SharePoint Server

2.     Configure Incoming email settings on SharePoint Central Administration

3.     Configure incoming email for a Sharepoint Doc Library

Configure Incoming email settings:

·         Launch SharePoint Central Administration, select System Settings, click Configure Incoming E-mail

·         Next to Enable Sites in This Server to Accept E-mail, select Yes.

·         Next to Settings Mode choose Automatic if you want to use Windows Server’s SMTP feature. if you want to use another email application on this server, then select Advanced and define the email drop folder where SharePoint will look for incoming email.

·         Next to use the SharePoint Directory Management Service to Create Distribution Groups and Contacts, if you choose No: Mail-enabled lists will not be listed in Active Directory as mail-enabled contacts. You can still send email to that list if you know its mail address. if you choose Yes, a corresponding mail-enabled contact in Active Directory will be created. If you choose Use Remote, this means that you have configured a remote SharePoint Directory Management Web Service and you would need to enter its URL.

·         Next to Email Server Display Address, either keep the default or enter the mail domain address for all of SharePoint’s mail-enabled lists.

·         Click Ok to save your settings

Configure a Document Library for Incoming email:

·         Switch to your document library’s settings and click incoming email settings

·         Set the option Allow This Document Library to Receive Email to Yes

·         Set the email address to complete the email address.

·         Set the option Save Original Email to Yes. This will ensure that the mail message is stored in this library, but only the text body in the email.

·         Accept remaining default settings and click OK

·         Start your local mail client and compose a new email to the document library email address, you can include a subject, body, and attachments to see how they appear on the library