Stephen,
I haven't done this ...but my friend did. Took a look at his code.
Bit of an ugly/inelegant fix but what he did was....
He used 'J-Integra' software (http://www.linar.com/) to make some COM objects
accessible through Java - in this case the COM objects were the 'Collaboration Data
Objects' (CDO - these provide an API to MS Exchange - if you don't already have them
available they can be downloaded).
Then he could talk to his java-wrapped CDO objects (from a servlet) to get them to do
what he wanted (read mail/send mail - whatever you need). This is the bit that
(although it ultimately worked very well) did prove fiddly and ugly to code (see
example below).
Hope this helps you in some way - it should actually do the job - but I'd be
interested in a better solution.
J
p.s. I've included some code below used for simply reading the number of messages in
the inbox:
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import cdo.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.linar.ocxhost.*;
import com.linar.jintegra.*;
public class MyClass1 {
public MyClass1() throws IOException {
try {
//Create the Session object
com.linar.ocxhost.Container container = new com.linar.ocxhost.Container();
Session objSession = new Session(container.create("MAPI.Session.1"));
//Logon
objSession.logon("Microsoft Outlook", null, null, null, null, null, null);
//Get the Messages object
Folder objInbox = new FolderProxy(objSession.getInbox());
Messages objMessages = new MessagesProxy(objInbox.getMessages());
AddressEntry currentUser = new AddressEntryProxy( objSession.getCurrentUser() );
//Display the number of messages in this folder
System.out.println( currentUser.getName() + " has " + objMessages.getCount() + "
messages in his inbox." );
//Logoff
objSession.logoff();
} finally {
Cleaner.releaseAll();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
//com.linar.jintegra.AuthInfo.setDefault("oasislan", "smitha", "");
System.setProperty("JINTEGRA_LOG_FILE", "c:\\temp\\log.txt");
System.setProperty("JINTEGRA_LOG_LEVEL", "3");
MyClass1 myClass1 = new MyClass1();
}
}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lambert, Stephen : CO IR [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 June 2000 10:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Servlet reading email from MS Exchange?
Greetings,
Has anyone ever thought of trying (or attempted) to read email from an MS
Exchange mail server using a servlet?
Or does just the mere thought of doing this make you want to cringe?
Is this scheme far beyond the capabilities of a servlet?
I would be interested in knowing what discoveries and/or difficulties one
would have to endure to be successful at using a servlet to read the
contents of an email into a database.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
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