Working with Microsoft Exchange Server

[Luis]

A bit of detail on the RPC over https (you need SSL, although it can be 
bypassed I would not follow that route as it needs a Registry mod to the 
server):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2f5737af-f2f7-4fe2-9202-dd9a3ac8ac17.aspx


RPC v2:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1831.txt


Nice example:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gui_rpc.php


How RPC works:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/4dbc4c95-935b-4617-b4f8-20fc947c72881033.mspx?mfr=true




Luis wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I'd first suggest they turn on POP3 and IMAP services: I can't see any 
> decent reason to turn these off. Arm wrestle if you need to.
> They wanna dictate? Dictate back.
> 
> But, there is another way (I'm assuming here that they are using the 
> latest version of Exchange). Exchange offers Outlook Web Access, ie: 
> Webmail. This can also be accessed with RPC over https, without having 
> to have Outlook configured to connect 'directly' to an Exchange server.
> I haven't looked too far into the protocol but I reckon it's doable in Rev.
> 
> If you have an Exchange email account, the Outlook client is free 
> anyhow: Maybe you can use WSH to control it and then script this via Rev 
> (this would require a Windows PC).
> 
> Another alternative would be to set up a rule in that Exchange email 
> account to forward to another email address as well (the rule having 
> reformatted the subject line with a specific keyword say, in order to 
> parse it in Rev).
> 
> Depending on what they are doing with the Exchange setup, they may have 
> a 'legitimate' reason for turning off IMAP (multiple domains) but 
> turning off POP3 is downright stupid: What if someone wants to access 
> their email from a PDA? You could justify the need for POP3 by stating 
> that you get service messages sent to your mobile...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Luis.
> 
> 
> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have just been warned of an approaching problem and I wonder if
>> anyone has any advice. I run numerous Mac-based kiosk systems which
>> communicate back to base using email. I wrote a stripped-down email
>> client in Rev that does POP & SMTP. It ignores any HTML emails,
>> attachments or any emails that do not match the standard structure,
>> but deals with the others in a way that the main kiosk program can
>> then handle.
>>
>> This works really well but I've just been informed that at one site,
>> they are closing down their POP servers and switching to Microsoft
>> Exchange Server with both POP & IMAP turned off. They won't  let me
>> access an external POP server, so I need to find a way to access their
>> Exchange server while still keeping programmatic control of the
>> emails.
>>
>> So far (although I've only just started looking), I can't find any
>> published protocol which I could use to adapt my existing client. At
>> the moment I'm looking at buying Entourage and seeing if I can
>> Applescript it enough to make it work, but that's a very bad solution
>> - expensive and less secure.
>>
>> If anyone has any brilliant ideas, I'd love to hear them....
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sarah
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