VO and Exchange

Has anybody any recent experience with directly reading or writing
e-mail messages (e.g. as .eml files) and/or agenda items from/into an
Exchange database?

Last year Ed dropped a link
http://www.voconversion.com.au/VoCon...n/default.aspx

but that is not working anymore.

Eric Hourant published a piece of code to access and assign Outlook on
www.echo-soft.com but I would prefer to directly access Exchange
data.

If somebody has some tips and/or code samples to get things started
that would be great.

Dick van Kooten

Hi,

In our app., we syncronize Outlook tasks (indirectly with
Exchange) and this works like a charm. We use the Outlook COM
interface (2003-2007).

If U need some infos, contact me.

--
Phil Mermod
Crystal Reports Library for Visual Objects
http://www.pkl.ch/dev/


D.J.W. van Kooten wrote:

> Has anybody any recent experience with directly reading or
> writing e-mail messages (e.g. as .eml files) and/or agenda
> items from/into an Exchange database?
>
> Last year Ed dropped a link
> http://www.voconversion.com.au/VoCon...n/default.aspx
>
> but that is not working anymore.
>
> Eric Hourant published a piece of code to access and assign
> Outlook on www.echo-soft.com but I would prefer to directly
> access Exchange data.
>
> If somebody has some tips and/or code samples to get things
> started that would be great.
>
> Dick van Kooten

Hi Dick,

AFAIK the Server editon of Outlook is called Exchange

EML files are just textfiles and they do not differ (much) from pop3 email
messages, so that would be easy to write.
For a start you could just save the email messages as a textfile with an EML
extension.

But...
Writing it directly on the Exchange server is not something I would advise.
1) Unless your app is installed on the same server, you'll most likely will
not be authorized to do so.
2) Not every Exchange server is configured to store all messages in EML. You
could bumb into one that stores everything a a Echange database file, one
big file containing all messages (per account)
3) I suggest you write a small Vulcan.NET app for this, very easy to do and
you'll find lots of samples on the internet who are with little effort
translated into Vulcan. You can call the EXE from your VO app if needed.

hth

Erik




"D.J.W. van Kooten" <public@ic2remove.this.com> schreef in bericht
news:bu0ra4hdiujgsp2v027vetda32q8bnb5lp@4ax.com...
> Has anybody any recent experience with directly reading or writing
> e-mail messages (e.g. as .eml files) and/or agenda items from/into an
> Exchange database?
>
> Last year Ed dropped a link
> http://www.voconversion.com.au/VoCon...n/default.aspx
>
> but that is not working anymore.
>
> Eric Hourant published a piece of code to access and assign Outlook on
> www.echo-soft.com but I would prefer to directly access Exchange
> data.
>
> If somebody has some tips and/or code samples to get things started
> that would be great.
>
> Dick van Kooten

Wouldn't it just be easier to ask us for the correct URL ? :-)

We removed the domain some time back - couldn't be bothered paying
useless fees so the site can still be found directly under the software
objectives one.

But your primary assumptions are not correct here. Exchange does not use
eml files so if you want to write emails and tasks (which is very easy),
just use the existing code we provide. We already provide the necessary
library code to access the Outlook object model.

....and it is Outlook you work with, not exchange.
(I shudder at the thought of working directly with exchange.)

To overcome the various security issues you might also want to look at
Redemption.

Geoff



"D.J.W. van Kooten" <public@ic2remove.this.com> wrote in message
news:bu0ra4hdiujgsp2v027vetda32q8bnb5lp@4ax.com:

> Has anybody any recent experience with directly reading or writing
> e-mail messages (e.g. as .eml files) and/or agenda items from/into an
> Exchange database?
>
> Last year Ed dropped a link
> http://www.voconversion.com.au/VoCon...n/default.aspx
>
> but that is not working anymore.
>
> Eric Hourant published a piece of code to access and assign Outlook on
> www.echo-soft.com but I would prefer to directly access Exchange
> data.
>
> If somebody has some tips and/or code samples to get things started
> that would be great.
>
> Dick van Kooten