RE: MAPI backend (was: Offtopic: Forwarding in MS Outlook)

RE: MAPI backend (was: Offtopic: Forwarding in MS Outlook)

[Horsley Tom]

As a way to thwart the forces of evil who mandate MS mail, I've
been working on a program that will run on your PC and access
your outlook mailbox, then act as a POP3 server, thus allowing you
to use any mail reader you want even when Outlook is mandated.

Don't bother to ask when I'll be done, because I have no idea,
but it is a fun project :-).

Re: MAPI backend (was: Offtopic: Forwarding in MS Outlook)

[Karel Sprenger]

Hi,

>>> On Wed, 3 May 2000 16:09:01 -0400 , Horsley Tom (Horsley) wrote:
Horsley> 
Horsley> As a way to thwart the forces of evil who mandate MS mail, I've
Horsley> been working on a program that will run on your PC and access
Horsley> your outlook mailbox, then act as a POP3 server, thus allowing you
Horsley> to use any mail reader you want even when Outlook is mandated.
Horsley> 
Horsley> Don't bother to ask when I'll be done, because I have no idea,
Horsley> but it is a fun project :-).
Horsley> 

Will it also do the sending part?  Fetching is silver, but sending is...
I sure hope you come up with something that frees me from Outlook :-)

Cheers,
Karel (exposed to Exchange for six months)

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MAPI backend (was: Offtopic: Forwarding in MS Outlook)

[Roman Belenov]

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If anybody is interested in writing MAPI-based mail fetcher, here is a
program I made for personal usage from PMSEU utility
(http://www.genusa.com/utils/pmseu.htm). It is written in Visual Basic
(it was first time I've done something with this dialect - never used
Basic since my schooldays :-). All parameters are hardwired; some
command line/config file parsing should make this utility quite usable.

The original program seems to be in public domain (although I'm not a
lawyer); I don't claim any rights on my code too. Anyway IMHO it
should be rewritten in C++ (should not be too hard since COM
interfaces are almost the same) and given proper interface (like
GNUish command-line parsing), so it can be made decent part of Emacs;
I don't sure I'll do it myself (the "get a disclaimer from your
employer if relevant" part seems to be the hardest - there were no
precedents in the company I'm working for and it seems that procedure
will be quite complicated).


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Andrew Innes <andrewi@gnu.org> writes:

> A better solution would be to write a variant of movemail.exe that uses
> MAPI to get mail directly from the Exchange server.  When I first
> started at my current job last summer, I thought I would have to do
> this, but then found out the POP3 service was actually installed and it
> was a DNS problem stopping me from seeing it.  So I never got as far as
> writing this program, although a month before that there was some
> discussion about it.  The mail is archived here:
> 
>   http://www.egroups.com/messagesearch/ntemacs-users?query=mapi
> 
> But if you are willing to work on it (necessity and all that), then I
> can offer some help.  Even though I have POP access to Exchange, I would
> actually prefer to have direct MAPI access, because the POP service
> seems to take it upon itself to reformat messages, wrapping long lines
> and omitting some "inline" attachments, and generally doing things that
> irritate me.
> 
> We could also provide the sending part of the MAPI solution, and make
> the whole thing part of Emacs proper, if you are willing to assign
> copyright to the FSF (and get a disclaimer from your employer if
> relevant).
> 
> AndrewI
> 
> 

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