Sucking e-mail from Exchange Server vis HTTP?

[bjorn]

> >> I just found the http server page on Exchange server that
> >> allows access to e-mails via a web browser.  What I'd really
> >> like is to write a Python program that just sucks the mail out
> >> of the inbox and delivers it locally.
>
> My other option would be to write a MAPI client that runs under
> Win32 and then gives the mail to the SMTP server on my Linux
> machine.  There's a MAPI module for Python, isn't there?
> Perhaps that would be easier -- but I've never programmed under
> Win32 before...

If you do this, let us know (I know I would be interested ;-)

> >It might be easier to use the exchange server as either an IMAP
> >or POP server instead (both should be on by default).
>
> The admin shut off both POP and IMAP to try prevent people from
> using mail clients other than Outlook.  He's convinced
> management that people who don't use Outlook were increasing
> his workload. [...]

Seems to be the favorite pastime of sysadmin staff these days (and they wonder
why everything is so slow...)

-- bjorn