ASP.NET application needs to read Exchange mailbox

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KathyB - 17 Apr 2006 00:02 GMT

I have an ASP.NET (VB.NET) application that uses Forms authentication.
Authenticated users need to read messages in their private mailboxes and save
the content of selected messages to a table in SQL Server. From a web
application, is the better solution to create an ActiveX object to read the
local Outlook datastore or is the better solution to directly access the
Exchange datastore by URL? If it is better to directly access the Exchange
datastore, can you get me started? I am totally new to Exchange and have
downloaded and looked through the SDK but I am still at a loss of where to
begin. Is there a specfic link that you can recommend? Please help!

Thank you!
KathyB

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Henning Krause [MVP] - 17 Apr 2006 07:44 GMT

Hello Kathy,

you can certainly access the Exchange server directly, for example by using
WebDAV. But you'll have to to the rendering of the emails yourself.

You can find plenty of resources in the Exchange SDK on MSDN
(msdn.microsoft.com/exchange).

And I have also some articles on my website (www.infinitec.de).

Greetings,
Henning Krause

>I have an ASP.NET (VB.NET) application that uses Forms authentication.
> Authenticated users need to read messages in their private mailboxes and
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> Thank you!
> KathyB

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