Re: Getting at addressbook information on an Exchange Server...

I must say, I'm interested too. M.B. "Ernani Joppert Pontes Martins" <ernani_listas@terra.com.br> schreef in bericht news:20020918054140.12114.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I have made a com+ module in php that uses CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) > to interact with exchange server profiles and send e-mails with php like a > webmail. > > Are you interested ? > > Cheers, > > Ernani > > "Ross Fleming" <r.fleming@clara.co.uk> escreveu na mensagem > news:PKEOKJGBCLBAKGDHPPFCIEECCEAA.r.fleming@clara.co.uk... > > Question 1 I'm not too sure about... > > > > Question 2: > > > > How do you mean spell check it? There are several levels of depth you > could > > take this to. You could just check the format of it (ie > > something@somewhere.com) using a pattern matching technique > > ereg( > > > "^[^@ ]+@([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9\-]{2}|net|com|gov|mil|org|edu|int)$" > > ,$email) is a rather simple one. > > > > This only checks that it's a valid format of email address however. It > > doesn't stop php emailing nonexistantaddress@onebigTLD.com (going out on a > > limb and assuming this doesn't exist!) > > > > There are ways of taking this further however. You can explode $email by > > the @ character and checking that the domain actually exists by simply > > pinging it or connecting to the relevant smtp server. This again, doesn't > > stop php from emailing gobbledegook1101240444@yahoo.com (again, probably > > doesn't exist but the format is ok and the TLD exists). The next step you > > could take (and this is getting a bit involved here... depends how much > time > > you've got on your hands) is to talk to the smtp server and attempt to > find > > out whether the user exists or not. I believe that it is possible to get > an > > smtp server to confirm or deny a users existance. > > > > Like I say, these are varying levels of checking, I have to say I've only > > ever went so far as to resolving the TLD through a DNS server. > > > > A solution you may wish to consider, is only allowing trusted email > > addresses to be used. One way I have done this in the past is to allow a > > user to register an email address, and then email a random cipher to this > > address and make the user enter the cipher into a validation page, thereby > > validating the email address a genuine and held by the user. > > > > I'd be glad to help if you've got any questions about the solutions I've > > given. :) > > > > HTH > > > > Ross > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: RS Herhuth [mailto:ronherhuth@mindspring.com] > > > Sent: 24 August 2001 15:31 > > > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Getting at addressbook information on an Exchange > > > Server... > > > > > > > > > > > > Two questions (well four if you count the sub questions): > > > > > > 1. Is there a way to get at the addressbook information stored on an > > > Exchange Server using PHP? Is there any documentation anyone > > > knows of that > > > can aid in this? > > > > > > 2. Is it possible to create an inline spellchecker that could be used > to > > > spellcheck an email before it is sent using PHP? Is there any > > > documentation > > > anyone knows of that can aid in this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ron > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > >