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title: Processing Strategy for Forwarding Emails
description: There are 5 Processing Strategies that can be associated with a Forwarding Email.
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# Processing Strategy for Forwarding Emails

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There are 5 Processing Strategies that can be associated with a Forwarding Email.

1. **Attachments or body (default)**  
     - By default, the system searches for an attachment.
     - If not available, we will read the email body instead
     - System does not read both. It is either, or.
2. **Only emails body** 
     - Body of the email will be converted to PDF and recognised as one created document in fileAI.
3. **Only attachments** 
     - One document per every attachment will be created.
4. **Emails body and attachments** 
     - Both are read. If one is not available, the other will be read.
     - Email body will be one created document in fileAI
     - One document per every attachment will be created.
5. - Email body is ingested as .pdf and combined with .pdf attachment
     - At this point, the flow works for .pdf but not for .jpeg and .png attachments  
       **Email body and attachments as one document**

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