My organization uses Microsoft Exchange 5.5 (ptui!) for e-mail and collaboration. We have a Public Folder called "Company Contacts" which is our company-wide contact list. I want to access that from Zope. I'm running Zope off of a Red Hat Linux 6.1 box. There doesn't seem to be a way to get to it from LDAP (grumble), and IMAPv4 is only giving me limited information (Contact Name and Notes). I don't think there's a way to do it with COM or MAPI (as my Zope server is Linux), but I'm not sure. My last ditch will be to write an ASP page running on the Exchange server to present that info to Zope for processing. If anyone could provide me with more insight or better solution, I'd love to hear it. TIA.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 Ian@Epperson.com wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a way to get to it from LDAP (grumble), and IMAPv4 is only giving me limited information (Contact Name and Notes). I don't think there's a way to do it with COM or MAPI (as my Zope server is Linux), but I'm not sure.
Well, whatever API there is on the windows box, you can presumably write a python (or perl, or C++, or java, or whatever) program that queries that information and makes it available via xml-rpc. Depending on your needs, you could for example use the zope side as the xml-rpc server, and push the contents of the info into zope nightly or something. Or, there's a very trivial to use xml-rpc server written in python that you could run on the exchange side, and let zope be the client side of the call. Most people I know treat their Exchange server like they treat their great-grandmothers, in an effort to lessen (heh, not eliminate) crashing... So it depends on how each solution effects your comfort level wrt the load on the server I guess. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/01/17/xmlrpcserver.html http://www.pythonware.com/products/xmlrpc/ Frankly, exporting the data via a web server on the exchange server is not a bad idea if you're already running the web server, especially if you export the data in a format easy to deal with programattically, for instance an asp page which dumps an XML document (you can probably write a trivial set of tags to mark up names, phone numbers, whatever, or find an existing DTD that works) and then zope can massage that however it wants. HTH,HAND, jim
There doesn't seem to be a way to get to it from LDAP (grumble), and IMAPv4 is only giving me limited information (Contact Name and Notes).
Is that using python's IMAP library, imaplib.py?
My last ditch will be to write an ASP page running on the Exchange server to present that info to Zope for processing.
If you need to do that, serve it out as XML and write a python sax parser to process it :-) cheers, Chris
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