Is It Possible To Start a Process Flow on Receipt of an Email?

Hi
Does anyone know if you can trigger the start of a process flow once an email has been received?
thanks ...

alternatively what you can done is:
If you are using unix/linux OS then:
create an SMTP service on unix/linux
have the email coming into unix/linux
write a unix shell scrpt to read he mails on a regular basis
if the email is existing create a "touch file" referred as flag file
use the OWB to check if the flat file exists on unix as owb can communicate with unix/linux
and then run the process flow which has the mappings
If you are using Windows OS then:
have a program which will extract the mail from your local mailbox onto a server, there are few softwares available in the market
use the option of writing it into a table or follow the flag file approach stated above.

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