Mordax Praetorian Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Hi, I've been employed doing (among other things) php for a company for nearly a year, I am entirely self-taught but have been performing tasks quickly and proficiently, picking up bits I don't know as I go along In this instance, the company requires a system in php to connect to it's exchange server, read unread mails in an inbox, and place certain information from them into a mySQL database I tried using Troy Wolf's Classes to read off E-Mails using WebDAV, however it appears that the server is using Standard Windows Authentication, and I've come to the conclusion that the extensions don't support this My IT Admin wants me to make php mime an Outlook Client and receive E-mails from the server that way, however I've found no information suggesting this is possible, and wouldn't even know how to start going about coding such a thing I am unable to change any settings on the server, I know that its Exchange 2003, that WebDAV is enabled, and I know it uses Windows Authentication over SSL, I have a username and password for the inbox with the mails to be read I feel completely out of my depth on this one, I've never worked with Exchange before but the company has no option other than to produce the system in house and I'm unfortunately the closest person here to being skilled enough to do it Just a starting point to go from would be of great help Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192259-accessing-exchange-server/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Php can retrieve mail box information and emails using IMAP or POP3 - http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192259-accessing-exchange-server/#findComment-1013164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordax Praetorian Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 Thanks for the response In order to have IMAP enabled on the server I would need to put in a detailed security report with the request I can find a lot of reports detailing security faults with IMAP, and no patch notes from Microsuck reporting to fix them, so unless theres more evidence about to show that IMAP is secure, I won't be able to put forward a case to enable it As for POP3, my IT Manager seems to be of the opinion that Exchange and POP3 are completely incompatible, is this not the case? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192259-accessing-exchange-server/#findComment-1013200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 POP3 is the primary protocol that a mail client program uses to retrieve email from a mail server. If you are using Outlook to 'read' email, you are most likely already using POP3. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192259-accessing-exchange-server/#findComment-1013219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordax Praetorian Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 ffs, theres a lesson to be learned here with trusting your IT managers I guess I'll go put a security report together for allowing pop3 Thankyou Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/192259-accessing-exchange-server/#findComment-1013222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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