Url for accessing the inbox folder.

[Anuradha]

Hi,

I am creating a windows service which will monitor a mail server and reads the contents of the mails and updates in the database.My problem is I am not able to access the inbox folder of the mailserver.

How can i access the inbox folder.What is the url that i should give to access the inbox folder..

Thanks in advance

Regards

Anuradha

[KevinH]

You can use the RSS feed.

http://YOU-SERVER/service/user/~/inbox.rss

[scottnelson]

Can you give me a "for example" ?

I tried this:

http://smtp.2022708968.com/service/s...om/~/inbox.rss

Does that look right? Or am I doing something stupid? ;-)

( Running 3.1.4 )

Scotty

[gmsmith]

Scott,

Try this:

http://<your zimbra server>/service/user/<your username>/inbox.rss

replace "<your zimbra server>" with your domain name
replace "<your username>" with your email account user@domain.com or user should be fine depending on how your machine is setup.

Good to see another Virginia area user

[Anuradha]

Hi,
Really thanks for ur response.

But i am not able to open the link which u gave me.

Anyways,I will tell in detail what i am trying to do..

My mail server is configured to outlook express.now i need to read the details from the outlook express and not from the mail server.

What could be the problem?.

Thanks in advance


Regards

Anuradha

[gmsmith]

Yeah, I don't know how you would pull info from Outlook Express.

If you pull from the Zimbra server directly you won't have to deal with Outlook Express running, so I might try to do the RSS feed as described above.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by Anuradha

Hi,
Really thanks for ur response.

But i am not able to open the link which u gave me.

Anyways,I will tell in detail what i am trying to do..

My mail server is configured to outlook express.now i need to read the details from the outlook express and not from the mail server.

What could be the problem?.

Thanks in advance


Regards

Anuradha

You could always use this OE plug-in then get the RSS feed from your Zimbra server. You haven't mentioned it but I assume you are using Zimbra?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by scottnelson

Can you give me a "for example" ?

I tried this:

http://smtp.2022708968.com/service/s...om/~/inbox.rss

Does that look right? Or am I doing something stupid? ;-)

( Running 3.1.4 )

Scotty

Probably a silly question but are you actually using an RSS reader? If so which one? This technique does work using this url:

http://<servername>/zimbra/home/<yourname>bpye/inbox.rss

When you enter <yourname> I just use the part without the FQDN and don't forget this is an authenticated feed - you will need the FQDN login name and password to get the feed.