MailEnable is a method in CDOEX, but it doesn't involve anything more than AD. Unlike a mailbox enable, you can simply update AD props and end up with a mail enabled user.
-----Original Message----- From: Steven Manross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:39 PM Posted To: perl-win32-admin Conversation: MailEnable with Perl on win32? Subject: RE: MailEnable with Perl on win32? I'd need to know if we're talking about Exchange 5.5 or 2K (because I'm not sure if you can MailEnable an E55 mailbox), but in E2K... I disagree. MailEnable is an Exchange Method on an AD user account. In addition to populating the address that you need to send mail to instead of an Exchange account, you need to MailEnable the account. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wss/wss /_cd o_imailrecipient_mailenable.asp As for Perl or VB.. It's not an issue.. You now have code for both (the above link and the code below). The following code should MailEnable an account to the address specified while while I suggest adding your own error-checking after each line. use Win32::OLE; $this_address = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; $provider = Win32::OLE->new("CDO.Person"); $provider->Datasource->Open("LDAP://server/cn=Users,dc=whatever,dc=com";, unde f,3); $interface = $provider->GetInterface("IMailRecipient"); $interface->MailEnable($this_address); $provider->Datasource->Save(); <shameless_plug> Win32-Exchange is available in PPM form from http://www.roth.net/perl/packages and CPAN. A MailEnable method/function should be available soon in Build 033 or 034. </shameless_plug> Steven -----Original Message----- From: Rick Tatem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MailEnable with Perl on win32? Once the mailbox is deleted (i.e. the Active Directory account is disassociated from the Information Store object), then "mailenabled" is just a function of the Active Directory, not Exchange. To be mail-enabled just means that the following attributes are defined: mail legacyExchangeDN proxyAddresses (SMTP and X.400) textEncodedORAddress (X.400 address) mailnickname mAPIRecipient (set to FALSE. TRUE means a mailbox) targetAddresss msExchPoliciesIncluded (The GUIDs for the Recipient Update Service - RUS - policies) That should do it since the Recipient Update Service should take care of the rest. Take a look at the Q articles regarding the Recipient Update Service. It's the service that updates attributes on mail(box)-enabled objects. You could use ADSI or LDAP at that point. Just depends what your most comfortable with. Rick --- Rick Tatem SAS Institute -----Original Message----- From: Peter A. Peterson II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MailEnable with Perl on win32? I work for a small university in Chicago, and am what I'd call a movice perl coder -- that's a medium novice. Anyway, our campus community is pretty well split between commuters and on campus students. And, since everyone's getting so net-saavy these days, many students come to school with email accounts that they already use regularly (hotmail, yahoo, etc.). We'd like to allow them to use a CGI to change their "on campus email address" to whatever their current "primary address" is. This is the sort of overview of how we were thinking about doing it -- at least, this is how it's done in the GUI (Exchange 2000): 1. Delete their mailbox. 2. MailEnable the AD user with the off campus address. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This allows their user to still show in the Global Address List, but have the address associated with it point off campus. 3. Add a secondary SMTP address for North Park (the school) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so that if someone sends email to that address it will be redirected to their s00perwebmail account. We're looking at doing this with either Perl or with VB -- I'm gunning for Perl myself. So I did some research into modules like Win32::Exchange to see what stuff was already modularized, and as far as I can tell, I can do the mailbox deletion and adding the secondary SMTP through that module, but I don't see a method for doing the MailEnable and adding the external address. Am I overlooking something? Or does this have to be done with the OLE calls? If someone could point me in the right direction on this, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Peter -- Peter A. Peterson II, technician and musician. ---=[ http://tastytronic.net/~pedro/ ]=--- _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
