From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2009-09-05T05:20:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Connecting to Exchange

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Aldric Giacomoni<aldric@trevoke.net> wrote:
> Imap fails for me, Pop fails for me. I'm guessing it's because of
> enabled security protocols.
>
> Is there a good way out there in Rubyland to make IMAP/POP work with
> enabled security?

Not likely without knowing more detail on why it is failing (have any
specific error codes from the client and server?) and if you can
successfully connect via IMAP from other programs.

> Any other solutions to connect to an exchange server? All I need to
> do is check/get/parse mail.

Depending on the version of Exchange and server configuration you may
be able to use the webdav or soap interfaces.  I don't know of any
pre-rolled ruby libraries for those.  Or, use one of the web scraping
libraries on OWA.