Working Directly With Exchange Server

[PiedPiper70]

As part of a larger system I currently have a standalone A2010 program which processes emails that it sees within Outlook. As my client is moving to Exchange Server I was wondering whether there was a better way of doing this by getting rid of Outlook and "talking" directly to Exchange. I'm motivated to look into this because of occasional reliability problem with the current set up.

My Googling turned up nothing so does anyone know if this is possibe, or even desirable?

Grateful for any input
Dave

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The more common Application Object in terms of mail management is for Outlook, not for Exchange. To use Exchange directly you would need the appropriate .DLL files, and like you, I've not seen those files anywhere. I'll bet that if the files DO exist, they only exist on the same system that runs Exchange, which means you probably would have to have a full copy of Office on that system. For commercial sites, who knows what is allowed, but I can say with some level of confidence that for any government site, the principle of "separation of function" would cause Exchange and Office to NOT co-exist. That might be why I've never seen it.

I will offer a guess that to use Exchange directly, you would need to use the MS protocols for mail management over TCP/IP via a network port. I question whether this is better or more efficient than using the Outlook Application object.