Title: RE: [SA-list] Exchange as mailserver?
MAPI is the Outlook/Exchange protocol; you may be thinking of IMAP, which Exchange also can use for non-MAPI clients (everything else, including OS X's Entourage, unfortunately).  I use a combination of checks against the SMTP and Information Store services for Exchange.  Not perfect, but it works.
 
An LDAP query would be better.  The anti-spam product I use, XWall, has an LDAP query vbs script that checks for valid accounts (to weed out non-valid account spam, but still has a governor to protect against directory harvesting).  It validates against a pre-set account as a test on startup.  Something like that, akin to the SQL Server db logon SA query, would be nice to have and be a better SA check than what I currently employ.
 
If it doesn't return against the query, then it's dead, Jim.  The beauty is that an LDAP query should work for more than just Exchange.


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Webster
Sent: Tue 5/24/2005 5:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Exchange as mailserver?

Dirk,

All of our customers and all of our monitored systems (a subset) are
Exchange.  Mostly 2003 with a few 2000.  We migrated the last 5.5 system
a few months ago.  Not quite sure if/how we would use a MAPI check.  We
use MAPI and POP in very few environments.  Those protocols are not even
enabled on our servers.  99% of the machines that connect to the
Exchange servers run Outlook and use the native Outlook/Exchange
protocols, whatever that is.  (some witch's brew of RPC I imagine.)

As for getting it to work, that's up to you, but both Blackberry
Enterprise server and Veritas Backup Exec can talk to Exchange
mailboxes.  Perhaps examining how those apps do it would prove
illuminating.  I know in each case there is a specific account that you
designate for the software to use when connecting to the mailboxes.
That account has to have certain rights that are granted to that account
during installation/configuration of the application.

Hope this helps.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Exchange as mailserver?

The idea would indeed be to be version (of Exchange) independent. It
would
be something like the SMTP2POP3 addon except then that it would use MAPI
instead of POP3 and optionaly also MAPI instead of SMTP.

My first concern is not to get mapi to work, that's the easy part, but
to
get mapi to work as user_1 while Servers Alive is running as a different
users (for example as service using the SYSTEM account)



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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
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Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:10 PM
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Exchange as mailserver?

 That would be awesome. If it's a mapi check running from SA, it would
just be a 'client' to the EX server, so it wouldn't matter what version,
etc you are on, right?

Would be a great option!!

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Posted At: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:11 PM
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Conversation: [SA-list] Exchange as mailserver?
Subject: [SA-list] Exchange as mailserver?


Hi,

Is it correct to assume that a lot of you are using Exchange as mail
server?
And that a version of SMTP2POP3 that supports MAPI as send/retrieve
protocol
would be helpful?


Dirk.

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