Outlook - Tasks

[theguru97321]

Is there a way to send an email that will create an Outlook Task, with Sendmail?

When I create a task in Outlook, I can send it to someone. Can i do this with sendmail???

 

[jkupski]

I think you're misunderstanding the roles of Outlook and Sendmail. Outlook is a mail client (MUA) and is used to compose, send, receive, and read messages. Sendmail is a mail server (MTA) and is used to transport mail.

They do not do the same things, and are not comparable--Sendmail is far more akin to Exchange Server than either is to Outlook.

That said, assuming you can generate an Exchange style task without the Outlook client (non-trivial, as the format is closed IIRC) it would be fairly trivial to implement some sort of solution on a Unix/Linux box running sendmail and some other software.

 

[theguru97321]

What I'm doing, is creating a Contact Management system with a Linux system. using Perl/CGI/HTML/Javascript.
I use sendmail to send emails with this system.
I'm looking into sending TASKS with sendmail, if at all possible. This would be similar to emails, but if it's possible, I do not know the syntax.

I know the roles of the 2 programs. I use an Exchange server, but it is on a Windows PC, and I don't want to use it, other than to RECIEVE the email/task.

So if you know how to format this, please let me know. Thanks.

 

[jkupski]

Honestly, you'd probably be better off doing this on a windows machine with vbscript. You can even find example code on how to do this at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=uwdQGadkCHA.1652@tkmsftngp09

If you're dead set on doing this on the linux box, your best bet to accomplish this would be to generate a task in outlook, then take a look at its format and replace the appropriate information with some obvious variable names. This would be the hard part.

Making it all work after that should be fairly simple--you could use sed/awk in your script to replace the variables with whatever information you need. The script could easily be called from an alias, or from a .forward file.

You need to solve that first part before you can worry about the sendmail side of things.