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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