MAPI/COM: where is the server?

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

You are talking Exchange, if it's available, or to a local copy of your data
if it's not and if you have offline mode enabled.

Either way, you are using CDO.DLL and probably talking to a service called
MAPISP32 - although you are stretching my knowledge at this point. As I
understand it, MAPISP32 decides where the request ultimately ends up.

I'd be very surprised if you could get this to work on anything other than
Win32.

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Dale Strickland-Clark
Out-Think Ltd, UK
Business Technology Consultants

Grant Edwards <ge at nowhere.none> wrote in message
news:diO85.3111$iN5.764889 at ptah.visi.com...
> My MAPI/COM e-mail fetcher (running under win95) does this:
>
>     self.session = win32com.client.Dispatch("MAPI.Session")
>     self.session.Logon("MS Eschange Settings")
>
>     [message fetching code left as an exercise for the reader]
>
> This was all developed without any basic understanding of DCOM
> or MAPI by copying other people's examples and semi-random
> trial-and-error.
>
> Question: Is it talking to Exchange server (which runs on a
>           remote machine), or is it talking to a local copy of
>           MS Outlook which is then acting as an intermediary?
>
> If it's talking directly to Exchange server, then there's a
> possibility I could do the same thing from Linux using either
> Software AG's product or GCOM.
>
> If my program is just talking to the local copy of MS Outlook,
> then running the program under Linux isn't very useful, since I
> still have to run that win95 machine that's sitting over in the
> corner.
>
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