[lopsa-discuss] Fetchmail like thing for Exchange2003

[Don Harper]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:09 -0500, Matthew Barr wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Don Harper wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> >   Does anyone know how to get email from an Exchange 2003 server?  My
> > constraints are:
> >
> >   No POP or IMAP
> >   No server-side rules for forwarding
> >   The WOA has a funky login screen
> >   This program runs under Linux
> >
> >   Why can I not use Evolution and Connector?  Well, I have two  
> > different
> > exchange servers I need to get email from, and Connector only  
> > allows one
> > server at a time.
> 
> So, your Windows admins won't turn on POP or IMAP, and you need to  
> get your mail?

Yup.  Security and all that rot. 

> There are very limited numbers of ways to get mail out from  
> Exchange.  I assume the login screen problem for Web based Outlook is  
> not something you want to fix... so: Evolution.  You're lucky you  
> didn't say some of the other OS's, since I don't think there *are*  
> any other ways to get email out of it.

I cannot fix the log-on page thing.

> POP, IMAP, Outlook, Web, or Evolution.   (I think Mac Entourage uses  
> IMAP, at least a bit... but I could be wrong.  And it's OS X.)
> 
> In short.. you've just ruled out every option.

Hence why I am asking this body.  I have found some older scripts which
claimed to have worked against 2000 WOA, but not 2003 and the log-on
pages.

> Why do you need to access 2 exchange servers?  You should only have 1  
> email account under exchange to check, if the admins have done a  
> semidecent job, or can at least forward to the right mailbox store on  
> *ONE* exchange server.

One server is for my employer, the other is for my client.  Policies on
both sides prevent off-site forwarding.


Don


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Don Harper