Url for accessing the inbox folder.

Anuradha · Post by **Anuradha** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:01 am

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

14319KevinH · Post by **14319KevinH** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:20 pm

You can use the RSS feed.
http://YOU-SERVER/service/user/~/inbox.rss

scottnelson · Post by **scottnelson** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:49 pm

Can you give me a "for example" ?
I tried this:

Does">http://smtp.2022708968.com/service/scot ... /inbox.rss
Does that look right? Or am I doing something stupid?

( Running 3.1.4 )
Scotty

gmsmith · Post by **gmsmith** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:27 pm

Scott,
Try this:
http:// zimbra server>/service/user//inbox.rss
replace "" with your domain name

replace "" 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 · Post by **Anuradha** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:14 am

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 · Post by **gmsmith** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:55 am

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 · Post by **phoenix** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:05 am

[quote 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[/QUOTE]

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 · Post by **phoenix** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:28 am

[quote user="scottnelson"]Can you give me a "for example" ?
I tried this:

Does">http://smtp.2022708968.com/service/scot ... /inbox.rss
Does that look right? Or am I doing something stupid?

( Running 3.1.4 )
Scotty[/QUOTE]

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

/zimbra/home/bpye/inbox.rsshttp:///zimbra/home/bpye/inbox.rss>

When you enter 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.