[lopsa-discuss] Fetchmail like thing for Exchange2003

[Gilbert Wilson]

It sounds like you're going to have to convince your client of a
policy change and reconfiguration of their Exchange server to add imap
(+ ssl for their peace of mind.)  I'm assuming that your employer
would not make this change for you, but your client would.

With Exchange you don't have to enable imap for every user, you can
enable it on a per-user basis, which may help your case.

Hope that helps.

Gil

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On 12/11/05, Don Harper <duckunix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> Don Harper <duckunix at gmail.com>
> Don Harper
>
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