Poll a Microsoft Exchange mailbox from OSB using DavMail by Laurens van der Starre

December 21, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The Oracle Service Bus has built in features to poll an IMAP of POP3 mail account. There are loads of excellent blog posts that exactly describe how to do it. However, when the mail server happens to be a Microsoft Exchange server, things become shady. Exchange’s IMAP implementation tends to be not really that compatible, and the server log will fill up with stacktraces such as:

Of course we can connect using the Exchange Web Services (EWS) using the OSB, but that is loads of work. Luckily there is DavMail. DavMail is an gateway that sits in between Exchange and your third party mail clients. Using DavMail, you can connect using simple POP3 or IMAP protocols to DavMail which in turn connects to Exchange using the EWS. DavMail is build in java, and runs happily on WebLogic Server.

So, download DavMail’s WAR distribution for SourceForge. Unpack the WAR-file and edit the properties file in WEB-INF/classes.

Set is to run in Server mode, and let it know where the EWS is: Read the complete article here.

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About Jürgen Kress
As a middleware expert Jürgen works at Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels, responsible for Oracle’s EMEA Fusion Middleware partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle SOA & BPM and the WebLogic Partner Communities and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. With more than 5000 members from all over the world the Middleware Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen manages the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and conferences. He hosts his annual Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forums and the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps, where more than 200 partners get product updates, roadmap insights and hands-on trainings. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. For the SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl, Jürgen is a member of the steering board. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences like the SOA & BPM Integration Days, JAX, UKOUG, OUGN, or OOP.

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