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Old 08-11-2010
Script to read email from Esxchange OWA server
Hi all.

I was asked to monitor our email process end to end, so that we can track that email is being delivered and the delay if any.

The email system I am monitoring is a Microsoft exchange with the built in Microsoft Web front end.
The monitoring systen is Nagios running on CentOS.

I have a script that creates an email and sends it via gmail to an account on the Exchange system, the part I need help with is how to login to the Exchange email website and get the email from the command line? the script can be written in sh or perl.

I saw some basic scripts which test if the website is operational by connecting to it, but they do not retrieve any mail.

Thanks in advance.
Sal
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Old 08-11-2010
Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) offers a https website with secure username and password authentication.
Imho there is no way you could drive this from unix shell.

Within the target Microsoft Exchange account you could try configuring a Server Based rule to forward the email to a monitoring computer (untested). I can see this getting very messy.



Command line mail is feasible to a smtp email service but there are existing unix commands which make it so much easier.
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Old 08-11-2010
UPDATE

I did find a perl script called "perl_owa" which is able to read email from the OWA server.

The script is pretty rough but definetly a starting point.
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Old 08-20-2010
I have this exact same requirement. If you could provide me with a link to the perl_owa script I'd be very grateful.
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