URI for a public folder?

Maury Markowitz · Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 12

I'm trying to download attachments from a public folder, and copy them into a
network folder for easy access in Excel. Looking over older messages in the
forum, it seems that what I should do is...

1) get the list of messages using ODBC (just because I'm in Access)
2) iterate over them and create an URI for each one
3) use that URI to retrieve the attachments

I'm stumped by (2) though. The examples that I can find are all for private
mailboxes, and most look like this commonly used example:

strURI = "http://server/exchange/username/inbox/TestMessage.eml/"

I assume that "server" is the URL to my Exchange server and that "exchange"
is a literal (?). But I'm not sure what goes after that in the case of a
public folder, I tried:

username=my name, inbox=public folder name
username=public folder name, nothing for inbox
username=public folder name, inbox=public folder name

Everything I try gets me a 404 error.

Any ideas?

Maury

Archived from group: microsoft>public>exchange>development

Maury Markowitz · Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 12

Ahhh, seconds later Google turned up the answer...

strURI = "http://server/public/foldername/TestMessage.eml/"

Ok, that's one down... now I'm curious about the credentials. Is there any
sort of anon login I can use for public folders? I'd really like to avoid
coding a password into the code.

Maury

Henning Krause [MVP - Exc · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 142

Hello,

the url to a public folder is http://servername/public/foldername.

Kind regards,
Henning

"Maury Markowitz" wrote in
message @microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to download attachments from a public folder, and copy them
> into a
> network folder for easy access in Excel. Looking over older messages in
> the
> forum, it seems that what I should do is...
>
> 1) get the list of messages using ODBC (just because I'm in Access)
> 2) iterate over them and create an URI for each one
> 3) use that URI to retrieve the attachments
>
> I'm stumped by (2) though. The examples that I can find are all for
> private
> mailboxes, and most look like this commonly used example:
>
> strURI = "http://server/exchange/username/inbox/TestMessage.eml/"
>
> I assume that "server" is the URL to my Exchange server and that
> "exchange"
> is a literal (?). But I'm not sure what goes after that in the case of a
> public folder, I tried:
>
> username=my name, inbox=public folder name
> username=public folder name, nothing for inbox
> username=public folder name, inbox=public folder name
>
> Everything I try gets me a 404 error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Maury
>

Henning Krause [MVP - Exc · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 142

Hello,

that depends on your server configuration.

If Integrated authentication is turned on, you can use the credentials of
the logged-on user. With basic authentication turned on you should ask the
user for a username/password. And if form based authentication is turned on
things will get complicated.

Kind regards,
Henning Krause

"Maury Markowitz" wrote in
message @microsoft.com...
> Ahhh, seconds later Google turned up the answer...
>
> strURI = "http://server/public/foldername/TestMessage.eml/"
>
> Ok, that's one down... now I'm curious about the credentials. Is there any
> sort of anon login I can use for public folders? I'd really like to avoid
> coding a password into the code.
>
> Maury

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