Re: Read inboxes of various mailboxes on Exchange Server

Thank you very much! Your reply was extremely helpful and I was successful
at sending a query to our Exchange Server to return back data I needed. I'm
still learning some of the properties (if that is what they are called) to
used in the SELECT statement for obtaining the fields I needed.

I also downloaded your Mistaya program and found it very helpful to see all
the regions and fields that I can obtain when peforming my SELECT query. Is
it correct for me to say that I can't always use DAV: region (i.e. use the
DAV:propertyname) in my search to get everything from an email? I see that
to check if an email "has attachments", I needed to search on something like
"urn:schemas:httpmail:hasattachments" which brings back True or False. I did
not see a "subject" or "hasattachments", etc... for the properties listed
under DAV.

Also I could NOT find how to find out how many attachments an email has or
how to retrieve them using WebDAV. Do you have any examples/links where they
show how to retrieve all the attachments an email has using WebDAV and Visual
Basic 6 (or vbscript that I can translate)?

Thank you again for your time.

Frank

"Henning Krause [MVP - Exhange]" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> you can do this with WebDAV.
>
> If you have more than one Exchange server, you must first determine the
> correct Exchange Server. See
> http://infinitec.de/exchange/howtos/getmailboxurl.aspx on how to this.
>
> If you have only one server, you can skip that part and access the Mailbox
> via http://myserver/exchange/<alias>
>
> If you have multiple languages, then the path of your inbox folder differs.
> In this case do a PROPFIND on the mailbox root and retrieve the property
> "urn:schemas:httpmail:inbox". This property contains the url to the inbox
> folde. (See
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_exch2k_getting_well-known_mailbox_folder_urls.asp
> for more on this topic, including an example).
>
> Now that you have the URL, do a SEARCH on that folder (see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_exch2k_search_tasks.asp)
> and get the emails you need.
>
> You say you have all the username/password credentials... You really don't
> need them. There are two possible ways around this: Grant a special user
> account the rights "Send As" and "Receive As" on the mailbox store. This way
> the useraccount you are using has full access to all mailboxes.
>
> The other way is to use the administrative root. Use an administrator
> account and instead of the urls above, use this one:
> http://server/exadmin/admin/<full-dns-name>/MBX/<alias>
>
> This url circumvents MAPI access checks and you also have full access to the
> mailbox.
>
> This is far better than to have a ton of passwords lying around.
>
> Greetings,
> Henning Krause [MVP - Exchange]
> ==========================
> Visit my website: http://www.infinitec.de
> Try my free Exchange Explorer: Mistaya
> (http://www.infinitec.de/software/mistaya.aspx)
>
>
> "Frank" <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:E3E6BC54-2ACB-4003-B38A-A14D3C3C9F7C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I need to create a program in VB6 that read the UNREAD emails located in
> >the
> > inbox of several mailboxes. I've been given a list of the mailboxes
> > names,
> > alias, username/password. Basically I need to loop through each mailbox
> > and
> > read all the UNREAD email items in the INBOX. For each email I need to
> > know
> > the email subject, message body, recipients, sender, and obtain any
> > attachments. This program will NOT be running on the same machine as
> > Exchange Server.
> >
> > I've been reading many articles on using CDO, CDOEx, recordsets with ADO,
> > and using WebDAV. Any help, suggestions, or code examples/links would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your time,
> >
> > Frank
>
>
>
.

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