Re: Mail Notification

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From: Glen Scales [MVP] (gscales_at_outlookexchange.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:23:37 +1000

I would look at using a Store Event Sink I would suggest looking at the
Exchange SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange which has a lot of info and
samples to get you going on this. With that sort of mail volume you really
should be considering compiling the code you are using (eg a VB.dll) this
lessens the impact on the servers performance considerably and should make
the whole thing a little more reliable. Even using VBS you should find that
event sinks are more flexible and reliable then agent script.

Cheers
Glen

"Jim" <dontemail@here.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e9BfPBciEHA.1348@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> Problem: Our senior users have two Outlook mailboxes - one regular and one
> private. The regular one is monitored by secretaries, the private one is
not
> as confidential mail is sent there. The users need to be notified by an
> email to their regular account when a message is sent to their private
one.
> Obviously the original message cannot be forwarded.
>
> We originally had this working with an agent script on the Exchange server
> mailbox. This has been very unreliable with the scripts freezing for no
> apparent reason and then they would stop working, which is not acceptable.
> The other problem is that we had to write a custom script for each
mailbox.
> We have a journal mailbox that receives every incoming and outgoing email
> and runs a couple of inbox rules. My preference is to write a 'New Mail'
> event or 'with events' script that analyses every incoming email to see if
> it is for a private mailbox and then sends an email as appropriate.
>
> I'd be very grateful for any advise as to whether this is the best
approach
> (or should we look again at the agent script problem). We receive several
> thousand messages a day - will running this script that many times a day
> cause a problem (memory leaks?)?
>
> We use Exchange 2000 and Outlook XP, but will be migrating to 2003
shortly.
>
> Thank you so much, James
>
>
>

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