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When I ditched Windows about two years ago, importing email from my MS infested employer was one of the easier things: our Exchange server had POP enabled, so fetchmail + procmail did the import job and delivered into Maildir. Two months later the company got sold, IT got "restructured" and we had to switch to "their" Exchange 2003 system. No more POP, but they still had OWA. I wrote a Perl LWP script to get the mail and pipe it into procmail again. Worked fine. Now the company got sold once more (could be good news, actually) and we had to switch mail systems again. This time it's Exchange 2007 inside a VPN. They still have OWA (locked inside the VPN), but OWA'07 seems to be useless for grabbing emails. Luckily, there is Openchange. This will allow many penguins to survive in an otherwise un-inhabitable corporate world. :-) I installed libmapi 0.8 and started rewriting exchange2mbox in order to produce single files that I can cat&pipe into procmail and that include the complete headers, so I can actually reply to emails. Works ok, however there are many emails where body.length seems to be zero, so nothing besides the header is downloaded. If I try openchangeclient --fetchmail on these mails I get an "invalid message" error. I need some directions here. For starters I'm wondering whether the implementation of exchange2mbox is actually a good starting pint or not. It seems to be a bit old and since it doesn't output any email addresses (only display names) I'm wondering whether it was ever meant to be used in a production system. I would appreciate it if someone could give me some pointers in the right direction or some sample code to build upon. I'd rather keep my current backend (Dovecot IMAP and Thunderbird), so I'm not really interested in Evolution plugins. The only thing I'm trying to implement for is an application that reliably grabs emails in plain old ASCII MIME and prints them to files. regards dirk P.S. Programming language is another question. I'm not a C enthusiast at all. Are the Python bindings usable, or is that still work in progress? -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openchange.org http://mailman.openchange.org/listinfo/devel
