hi samuli,
while appreciate your response, i have to tell you that i do understand
smtp all too well, having worked with it for at least the past 10 years.
what i believe you may not understand is the end result that i wish
to achive. mapi (to the best of my understanding) is just another email
(messaging, really) transport protocol (i am by not means a mapi expert
however and may be missing some important detail here). however i do
know that mapi is the transport protocol that outlook uses to talk to the
exchange server. the exchange server can also function as an smtp and
pop3 server among other protocols. however as i mentioned, outlook
uses mapi to talk to the exchange server. what i would like to achive
is for my outlook clients to be able to talk to a process (mapi daemon)
on a linux system. the mapi process in turn would talk to the smtp
server to receive and send mail, acting as a proxy for the outlook clients.
i believe that some of this confusion may be due to the fact i originally
refered to the (non-existant?) linux mapi software as a "mapi client"
since he would in fact be a client to the smtp process. however the
semantics may have caused some confision, for which i apologize.
i do not know if i can explain this in any simpler terms. if no such
software exists, maybe i'll fill this whole myself.
thanks again,
//daryl
Samuli Kaski wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Daryl Williams wrote:
>
> > i obviously did not express myself clearly in my original email.
> > what i was hoping to find is an interface (daemon) that would
> > accept mapi requests from a client (outlook) and pass the request
> > to an smpt server, and then forward the response back to the
>
> You still don't understand. SMTP just does mail forwarding, like:
>
> a: b send my e-mail to c
> b: ok, will do
> c: ok, i got it (you won't see this part, just for clarification --
> if there is a problem you(a) will see it)
>
> b is SMTP in this context (ofcourse a-b and b-c are too but for the sake
> of being understandable).
>
> You will still need the functionality to read the original mail[1].
>
> What you will need is to have an interface to read e-mail from an MS
> Exchange e-mail directory and then use SMTP to eg. reply to it.
>
> [1] The e-mail I sent earlier.
>
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> Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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