BkAssist Can Screen Your Court Mail

BkAssist includes—at no extra charge—an e-mail screening component to handle the blizzard of e-mail an active bankruptcy practitioner typically receives.

CM/ECF E-mail Screening

A separate component named BKAECF (a name that only a programmer could love, we admit it) runs on one of your computers to actually scan e-mails.

In proxy mode, BKAECF sits between your e-mail program and the Internet. Each time your e-mail program fetches mail messages, BKAECF scans the messages to identify the ones coming from the court. Over time, it builds up a temporary work file called courtmail.xml that records the important details of the court's message.

In standalone mode, BKAECF periodically queries your e-mail server to read and discard the messages from the court. In this mode, it builds up courtmail.xml in exactly the same way as in proxy mode.

Back-end Processing

BkAssist processes the courtmail.xml file left behind by BKAECF to do three things:

• Build up a local copy of the docket sheet for each of your cases.
• Download your free-look copy of every document into the DownloadedFiles folder for the affected client.
• Update the BkAssist calendar for every event mentioned in the messages.