[lopsa-discuss] Fetchmail like thing for Exchange2003

[William Reading]

On Dec 11, 2005, at 6:09 AM, Matthew Barr wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Don Harper wrote:
>>
>>   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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)

If you have a Mac and a copy of Entourage, it will pull the exchange  
data over the OWA WebDAV stuff like the Evolution plugin does. It  
also supports multiple accounts, to boot. (Unfortunately, you say  
that it must run under linux, so I suppose that solution is out.)

What's funky about the OWA login screen? Does it require client side  
ssl certificates or something? (If it does, you might look at using  
stunnel with that)

I think as a quick workaround in the meantime, you could run  
evolution off two different accounts (I think it does funky stuff in  
the background) in the meantime.

If you're willing to expend more effort, you might be able to look at  
the connector code and write something that just scrapes out of  
exchange using webdav and delivers it locally via procmail or something.

-WFR
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