Simple script needed... 1

[gbaughma]

Can someone push me in the right direction?

I'm writing a simple web page that, among other things, need to tell how many messages are sitting in a particular exchange inbox.

So, in other words, if "Sales" has 15 messages, I need to (through ASP) log into the Sales mailbox, and return a value of how many messages are in the Inbox folder, so that my web page can say "15 Messages Waiting".

I'm not sure the easiest way to do this... I can send e-mail easily enough with ASP, but I haven't had to fetch information from Exchange through ASP before.

TIA!



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[ChrisHirst]

For "classic" ASP to communicate with Exchange it need to use LDAP and both the webserver and the Exchange server would need to be running on an Active Directory Domain Controller.
If the Exchange server is later than ver 2000 using the .net framework extension for Exchange would make it simpler.

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[gbaughma]

OK, so if I were to re-write this page in ASP.NET (VB), is there a simple way to get the number of unread messages from a mailbox?

All I want to do is put "You have x Unread Messages" on a web page.



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[ChrisHirst]

http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2008/10/vbnet-sample-for-getting-number-of.html

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[gbaughma]

Well, I ran into some issues (like the fact that Office isn't installed on my web server).

So I found a cute script that makes a POP3 connection, and modified it so that it counted the number of messages from a LIST command.

It's up and running.

Thank you for all your input, however.



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com