[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange

[Race Vanderdecken]

IMAP vs. Exchange

I would be very weary of using IMAP against an Exchange Server. I have
not touch it for years but IMAP and Exchange did not play together
really well back then.

Has anyone actually used real IMAP to talk to an Exchange server from a
Linux client lately? 

If your Linux client can play nice then IMAP with exchange might work.

The trick is getting Exchange to talk to you if you are not a MAPI
client.

Just some thoughts, if you can get it to work that would be great and I
think people would buy it.

Race "the tyrant" Vanderdecken

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of magnus
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:08 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> George Pajari
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:19 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange Synchronization
> 
> 
> We have a customer considering migrating from a large Nortel 
> PBX with a 
> third-party voicemail system to Asterisk but one of the features they 
> really like is the automatic synchronization of voicemail between 
> Exchange and their voicemail system -- delete a message from the 
> voicemail system and it is deleted from their email inbox and 
> vice versa.
> 
> Searching has not revealed anything like this being developed for 
> Asterisk and yet it would appear to be a critical component needed to 
> migrate customers used to fully integrated "Unified 
> Messaging" systems 
> to Asterisk.
> 
> (a) Has anyone cracked this nut (or started on it)?
> 
> (b) Anyone interested if we post a bounty?

>From my perspective, not sure I would want Exchange (Which is difficult
enough to manage) to be cluttered up with potentially large voicemail
files,
I would have thought that most Exchange clients are most likely to be
Outlook based, who could use pst & Imap (Or pop3 if asterisk could auto
forward and then delete voice mail) to retrieve voicemail via email
without
having to worry about central Exchange issues. Might be my lack of
knowledge
but this would appear to be able to be written as a mapi outlook add in
that
could update Asterisk to purge voice mail at the same time the user
deletes
the local copy? Based on the assumption on Imap? I would support a
bounty
either way that offered this feature.
Magnus

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