คำตอบ Best way to integrate mobile-created employee email?

  • שבת 05 מאי 2012 21:40
     
     

    Hello,   my company is building a new secure mobile email client/server, and I am researching the best way to route mobile-created employee email to Exchange so that the following occur:

    - Exchange hub rules, like journaling and outbound scanning, are applied

    - mobile-created employee email shows up in the user's "sent mail" folder when viewed from Outlook.

    Our mobile app users will authenticate with their desktop AD credentials, create mail and send.  The server side of our app takes the user email and routes it via SMTP.

    Can we route it inside the customer organization and take that mail into Exchange as "authenticated" mail from the user?     All we will have on the message is an smtp address.   So my questions are:

    - what's the best way to integrate this type of mobile-created SMTP message traffic?

    - what's the best way to handle exceptions?

    - any limitations to consider? 

    Thanks

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  • יום ראשון 06 מאי 2012 00:29
     
     

    It sounds like you're going to have to write an Exchange Web Services-based client for the mobile device, or a server that connects into Exchange like Blackberry Enterprise Server that handles the traffic between your mobile device clients and the Exchange server.


    Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

  • יום שני 07 מאי 2012 14:53
     
     

    Thanks Ed,   that's what I had feared.    I looked at edge transport rules and I see this predicate property, but no examples or discussion about how to apply it.    Looks close to what I'm seeking from Exchange:

    - Edge server takes an SMTP message from a secure mobile email server, users are authenticated at the handheld

    - match the "from" in the SMTP message to primary SMTP in AD

    - transport the message to the hub, authenticated as the user

    - transport exceptions to an exchange mailbox for operations monitoring

    Seems like it should be possible without using MAPI, but a couple of Exchange integrations I've looked at (Blackberry, Good) both use MAPI to connect to user mailbox for mobile-created mail.

    Thanks again for the response,

    Rich

  • יום שני 07 מאי 2012 15:13
     
     

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  • יום שני 07 מאי 2012 15:22
     
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    App developers are being encouraged to use Web Services instead of MAPI going forward.  This thread would probably be better held in the Development forum.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/threads


    Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."