[Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicemail and MS Exchange Synchronization

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On 6/9/05, Iassen Hristov <ih.ng at databrokers.net> wrote:
> I don't see why it has to be Exchange specific. It should be able to work
> for all IMAP servers.
> 
> The way I see it, it should be fairly simple to implement in the following
> scenario:
> 
> 1) Modify Asterisk source to:
> a) when sending the notification e-mail - add a special X-Header that
> contains an ID for the VM.
> b) when deleting the msg - send a msg to a special e-mail address
> 
> 2) On mail server have a procmail or sieve rule that when sent a special
> msg containing the VM ID is able to find it by searching the X-Header and
> delete it from the IMAP store.
> 
> Another possibility for 1b) is if the AstManager sends the fact that the VM
> was deleted as an event. If this is the case then a client application can
> "subscribe" to that event and do the necessary finding and deleting of the
> e-mail.
> 
> Matching can technically be done on the subject, but an X-Header seems less
> dangerous.
> 

This will work anyhow with any imap server as you say, however most
companies use Excahnge and Outlook as a client to Exchange using MAPI
and not IMAP or POP. However your idea is very solid as it would work
with Exchange and Outlook using MAPI as well.