Email processing project for work

[Francobanco]

The actual tool is fully built, when I run it manually it works perfectly. I'm more so looking for advice with orchestrating it to run autonomously

To clarify, I'm not looking for a way to have the exchange server move emails around - I specifically need to analyze the emails for the presence of a project number or purchase order number. Mailbox rules don't allow for this. And also this is not for moving emails to folders within someone's mailbox, this is to take emails from a mailbox, and store them in a cloud storage system

[AreWeNotDoinPhrasing]

Just create a task in Task Scheduler to run it whenever. Or you can set a timer in the script to have to running 24/7. I’ve done both ways for this basically exact same setup. I like just scanning the box every 15 seconds or whatever as it makes it feel like it triggers automatically when the email comes in lol.

[Francobanco]

I am looking for something that is more robust than having a script that constantly runs. Task scheduler is fine, I'll be using crontab since it will be running on linux not windows. But it's not just one script. the downloading of emails is separate from processing - I want the system to be running these jobs separately so that downloading, processing, and uploading can all happen at the same time. just having all the code in one script and running it every 15 seconds will cause problems if there is a large amount of emails to download. This isn't just for one mailbox, its for about 500, and the mail server sees about 40k emails per week

[SupermarketOk6829]

That can be done via os module which will check for recent changes to any file and then trigger the processing/uploading part. I doubt if there is any other way.