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Capturing Cases from Customer Emails

Setting Up Email-to-Case

Set up Email-to-Case routing addresses and make sure that emails sent to routing addresses are converted to cases .
     1. From Setup, enter email-to-case in the Quick Find box, then select Email-to-Case.
     2. Click New, from the Routing Addresses related list.


     3. Enter the routing address settings. When a customer sends an email to this address routing , a case is created in the organization where the subject of the email becomes the case subject and the message body becomes the case description .
     4. Click Save to save the routing address settings.
     5. Click Verify next to the email address. A verification email is immediately sent to the new routing address, which includes a link that can be clicked to complete the verification process.
     6. Click Continue.
     7. In your email application , find the verification email and follow the instructions to verify the email address .

Enabling Email-to-Case or On-Demand Email-to-Case

Turn Email-to-Case or On-Demand Email-to-Case for your organization.
     1. From Setup, enter email-to-case in the Quick Find box, then select Email-to-Case.
     2. Click Edit to enable Email-to-Case.


     3. Select the Enable Email-to-Case checkbox.
     4. Select the Enable On-Demand Service checkbox to enable On-Demand Email-to-Case.
     5. Click Save.
     6. Add the Emails related list to the case page layouts.