From: zenChild <dan.wanek@...>
Date: 2009-10-23T00:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Connecting to Exchange

On Sep 4, 3:20 pm, brab...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Aldric Giacomoni<ald...@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 anexchangeserver? All I need to
> > do is check/get/parse mail.
>
> Depending on the version ofExchangeand 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.

It is still in the early stages of development, but I am writing a
client access library for MS Exchange that talks via Exchange Web
Services that may help you out.  You can get the code from
http://github.com/zenchild/Viewpoint.  Have a look at the README and
some of the scripts in the "test" and "examples" directories.