On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 05:12, Danny Angus wrote: > Andrew & Scott, Hi, > > I think the notion of pursuing Exchange is a sound one, it was the > possibility of building collaborative tools that was one of the main > attractions of James to me in the first instance. > > I'm glad to see Andrew take an interest because, having seen POI (well the > docs at least ;) I think he may be the man to ask about Outlook, I've been > frustrated for a couple of years at my inability to generate or read the > binary email attachments Outlook uses to deal with folder subscriptions, > calendar items, tasks etc. So one thing I'd like to see would be a pair of > xlation mailets which could take outlook "item" emails and translate them to > xml, and vice versa. Then James' mailet implementation could distribute > these, thereby creating a bridge between Outlook and other applications. > Unfortunately not only do I not know enough about Outlook, but I also don't > really know where to start reverse engineering these mails. >
Looks like I'll be learning a lot more about outlook. I'll betcha these are written in ole2cdf... :-) > I'm a commited believer in the potential of James, it has some real killer > features IMO, and to make it swappable with Exchange seems like just the > right mountain to climb (or fall off?) > > About myself.. I don't know enough about Avalon (yet) but I do know alot > about email, I've been a comitter here since September last, and if I ever > find the enough time I want to add virtual hosting to all protocols, and a > mailet context to NNTP. > > d. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
