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Which Interfaces Do I Use?

The External Agent includes two sets of interfaces, available by different COM objects:

• WgnActiveImportConnector: Use these interfaces to apply policy to messages passed to the External Agent, to optionally create CA DataMinder events and store them on the CMS, and to retrieve any associated smart tags. See the next section for details.
• WgnImportConnector: Use these interfaces to generate EVFs (CA event files) for messages passed from a third party archive.

In both cases, the External Agent is not a separate process, but runs as a DLL inside the archive solution's process. It starts automatically when it is called by the archive solution's process. Also, the actual message data is generally not saved permanently on the CMS; instead, to minimize storage requirements, a record in the CMS database for each imported e-mail references the associated entry in the e-mail store (for WgnActiveImportConnector, this requires that the caller passes a remote data location to the External Agent).

More information:

WgnImportConnector Object