Login to MS Exchange to send e-mail

Dear all,

Anyone know that how can I login to a MS Exchange server using my corporate
e-mail account to send a e-mail.
I use to do some automatic job and send the result to my colleagues in my
corporation.
I am using a RH9 Linux box and prefer to use Perl or shell script to do
that.

Many thanks,

YW

In article <c956nn$23eb$(E-Mail Removed)>, Y W Wong says...
> Anyone know that how can I login to a MS Exchange server using
> my corporate e-mail account to send a e-mail.
> I use to do some automatic job and send the result to my
> colleagues in my corporation.
> I am using a RH9 Linux box and prefer to use Perl or shell
> script to do that.

Ask your exchange admin to start the SMTP-, and IMAP- or POP3-connectors on the
Exchange Server.
Then use the usual mail-modules available from CPAN.

If the connectors aren't already active, that is.
Have you checked if they are?


Petri

I just want to act as a simple script type MS Outlook to send text mail.
Anyone know how ?


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> In article <c956nn$23eb$(E-Mail Removed)>, Y W Wong says...
> > Anyone know that how can I login to a MS Exchange server using
> > my corporate e-mail account to send a e-mail.
> > I use to do some automatic job and send the result to my
> > colleagues in my corporation.
> > I am using a RH9 Linux box and prefer to use Perl or shell
> > script to do that.
>
> Ask your exchange admin to start the SMTP-, and IMAP- or POP3-connectors
on the
> Exchange Server.
> Then use the usual mail-modules available from CPAN.
>
> If the connectors aren't already active, that is.
> Have you checked if they are?
>
>
> Petri
>

On 2004-05-28, Y W Wong <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>> Anyone know that how can I login to a MS Exchange server using
>>> my corporate e-mail account to send a e-mail. I use to do some
>>> automatic job and send the result to my colleagues in my
>>> corporation. I am using a RH9 Linux box and prefer to use Perl
>>> or shell script to do that.
>>
>> Ask your exchange admin to start the SMTP-, and IMAP- or
>> POP3-connectors on the Exchange Server. Then use the usual
>> mail-modules available from CPAN.
>
> I just want to act as a simple script type MS Outlook to send
> text mail. Anyone know how ?

Yes. You've just been told how. What part of the answer
didn't you understand?

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I understood the SMTP and POP3 description.
But it doesn't answer my question.
I am asking how to login like MS Outlook, not by POP3 or SMTP.
Hope that someone know what I am asking for.


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news:(E-Mail Removed) ¤¤¼¶¼g...
> On 2004-05-28, Y W Wong <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >>> Anyone know that how can I login to a MS Exchange server using
> >>> my corporate e-mail account to send a e-mail. I use to do some
> >>> automatic job and send the result to my colleagues in my
> >>> corporation. I am using a RH9 Linux box and prefer to use Perl
> >>> or shell script to do that.
> >>
> >> Ask your exchange admin to start the SMTP-, and IMAP- or
> >> POP3-connectors on the Exchange Server. Then use the usual
> >> mail-modules available from CPAN.
> >
> > I just want to act as a simple script type MS Outlook to send
> > text mail. Anyone know how ?
>
> Yes. You've just been told how. What part of the answer
> didn't you understand?
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hey, waiter! I
want
> at a NEW SHIRT and a PONY
TAIL
> visi.com with lemon sauce!

In article <c9adch$1sjv$(E-Mail Removed)>, Y W Wong wrote:

>> >>> Anyone know that how can I login to a MS Exchange server using
>> >>> my corporate e-mail account to send a e-mail. I use to do some
>> >>> automatic job and send the result to my colleagues in my
>> >>> corporation. I am using a RH9 Linux box and prefer to use Perl
>> >>> or shell script to do that.
>> >>
>> >> Ask your exchange admin to start the SMTP-, and IMAP- or
>> >> POP3-connectors on the Exchange Server. Then use the usual
>> >> mail-modules available from CPAN.
>> >
>> > I just want to act as a simple script type MS Outlook to send
>> > text mail. Anyone know how ?
>>
>> Yes. You've just been told how. What part of the answer
>> didn't you understand?
>
> I understood the SMTP and POP3 description. But it doesn't
> answer my question. I am asking how to login like MS Outlook,
> not by POP3 or SMTP.

You can't. Outlook uses a proprietary, undocumented protocol
to talk to Exchange server. The only way to send mail w/o
using SMTP is to run you application under Windows and use the
COM interface to Outlook and send mail using Outlook itself.

You said that what you want to do is use a simple script
interface to send text e-mails. That is about as far from
being "like Outlook" as you can get.

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In message <40b8c454$0$17252$(E-Mail Removed)>, Grant
Edwards <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>In article <c9adch$1sjv$(E-Mail Removed)>, Y W Wong wrote:
>
>>
>> I understood the SMTP and POP3 description. But it doesn't
>> answer my question. I am asking how to login like MS Outlook,
>> not by POP3 or SMTP.
>
>You can't. Outlook uses a proprietary, undocumented protocol
>to talk to Exchange server. The only way to send mail w/o
>using SMTP is to run you application under Windows and use the
>COM interface to Outlook and send mail using Outlook itself.
>
The protocol is called MAPI. Search for this on the Net to get a feel
for the ease of interfacing with it.
--
Joe

On 2004-05-29, Joe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>> I understood the SMTP and POP3 description. But it doesn't
>>> answer my question. I am asking how to login like MS Outlook,
>>> not by POP3 or SMTP.
>>
>>You can't. Outlook uses a proprietary, undocumented protocol
>>to talk to Exchange server. The only way to send mail w/o
>>using SMTP is to run you application under Windows and use the
>>COM interface to Outlook and send mail using Outlook itself.
>
> The protocol is called MAPI. Search for this on the Net to get a feel
> for the ease of interfacing with it.

MAPI (Messaging Application Program Interface) is the library
API rather than the protocol:

http://www.outlookcode.com/d/mapi.htm

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Y W Wong wrote:
> I understood the SMTP and POP3 description.
> But it doesn't answer my question.
> I am asking how to login like MS Outlook, not by POP3 or SMTP.
> Hope that someone know what I am asking for.
>


You can log in for mail retrieval using IMAP (provided it is enabled).
You will not see any of your contact or calendaring data however since
this isn't MAPI.

I do not know of any compatible MAPI clients.


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In article <c9adch$1sjv$(E-Mail Removed)>, Y W Wong says...
>>>> Ask your exchange admin to start the SMTP-, and IMAP- or
>>>> POP3-connectors on the Exchange Server. Then use the usual
>>>> mail-modules available from CPAN.

>>> I just want to act as a simple script type MS Outlook to
>>> send text mail. Anyone know how ?

>> Yes. You've just been told how. What part of the answer
>> didn't you understand?

> I understood the SMTP and POP3 description.
> But it doesn't answer my question.
> I am asking how to login like MS Outlook, not by POP3 or SMTP.
> Hope that someone know what I am asking for.

Do you know, yourself?
Use POP3 or IMAP to login to your exchange mailbox, just like Outlook does.
What's the problem?

Actually, you probably don't even have to login at all, since you claim you only
want to send email, and SMTP authentication is not on by default in Exchange
Server.
use Net::SMTP; # Or anyone of the numerous free email modules on CPAN.


Petri