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How to forward MS Exchange email to MQ?

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bmmc

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:32 pm Post subject: How to forward MS Exchange email to MQ?

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Joined: 17 Jan 2012
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I'm looking for suggestions on how to setup MS Exchange to forward emails (including attachments) to an MQ queue.

I have requirements that do not allow me to poll the exchange based email account so I was thinking of trying to setup a rule on Exchange that could be invoked and execute a custom program using MQ client libraries (.Net likely) to map the email message to an MQ one and pack the attachment in it to make it easy enough to parse on the receiving side.

Has anybody done something similar or have a suggestion (other than get off of Exchange)?

Thanks,

BMMc.

mqjeff

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:05 am Post subject:

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Joined: 25 Jun 2008
Posts: 17447

If you can't "poll", i.e. write code to act as if it was a regular email client (and why they won't support that is a separate question), then you appear to be on the right track.

The gotchas to look out for are things like needing to change environment variables in the shell that runs Exchange - i.e. to make sure that MQ is on the PATH - and that you have very solid logging and debugging available for your code.

The supportPac MA7K does something vaguely similar to this talking to Lotus Notes.

Oh, and your best bet is to mark the message as MQFMT_STRING and then put the entire MIME document that represents the email message into the MQ message.

zpat

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:16 am Post subject:

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Joined: 19 May 2001
Posts: 5866
Location: UK

I seem to remember that Exchange has an optional MQ adapter available.

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