Thanks for the answer but I am actually looking for the Contacts folder in a mailbox. The GAL is available easily using LDAP, CDO, or the admin.exe from the command line.
-----Original Message----- From: Barry C. Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:27 PM To: Chris Rogers Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org (E-mail) Subject: Re: Perl and Exchange Server On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 11:24 US/Eastern, Chris Rogers wrote: > I have been trying for some time to get at the contacts in a mailbox on > exchange server 5.5. I have been using Win32::OLE with CDO. I can > get the > contacts folder, the count of items in it, and even the name of each > contact > but I can't seem to get at any of the fields. I have found many > examples in > VB that use the outlook object model to do this but I need to get the > data > from the server without outlook. All my attempts at this have failed > miserably. I have tried to understand the documentation on MSDN > however > there are no specific examples for getting the contacts from the > server. > All examples I have found deal with the contacts from the client not > the > server and the few I found written in perl don't seem to work at all. > Since > this is generally an Microscrap question, I have posted numerous times > to > the MS newsgroups for exchange with no responses. If someone can give > me an > example or point me in the right direction, I would be eternally > grateful. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Chris, You might have better luck searching MSDN and the Knowledge Base for "Global Address List" (GAL). The GAL is the common name in Exchange-speak for what you are calling the Contacts folder on the server. My experience with CDO is limited to OLE-DB/ADO/VBScript, so alas, that's all I can tell you. Regards, -- Barry C. Hawkins Systems Consultant All Things Computed 404-795-9147 voice/fax http://www.allthingscomputed.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
