You are right. I asked Exchange person and he mentioned that personal contacts are stored in the mailbox on Exchange and not in AD. Therefore, as you said, I would need to use something like j-XChange.

Regards,
JT

Not sure about accessing contacts – they’re certainly stored in Exchange, but not sure that they’re LDAP accessible.

I haven’t used j-XChange, but perhaps it might be helpful? It supports Exchange interaction from Java without CDO or MAPI.

Let me know if you find a solution.

Thanks,
Andrew

This information is very useful. I want to go one more level down. I want to read user’s personal contacts. Do you know if personal contacts are also stored in Exchange LDAP? We have form to request user’s exchange id and mail password; once user supplies his/her credentials, I want to connect to ldap using user’s credentials to get Global Address List entries and user’s contacts as well. Do you think this is possible?

Thanks,
JT

Glad to hear it was helpful for you!

Cheers,
Andrew

Thanks again.

No – this post is only about accessing data from an LDAP directory, not about accessing email content.

If you don’t have IMPA, POP3 or OWA access to your Exchange server, then MAPI is your only choice. Access to Exchange via MAPI is tricky from Java (which it sounds like you need), but much easier if you’re happy to use .NET .

The only Java solution I’m aware of is the commercial offering by J-Integra (See http://j-integra.intrinsyc.com/support/exchange/doc/ for details). This is, however, a pricey alternative.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Andrew