Programing Webmail for Exchange 2003

Hi,

I have two questions about Exchange 2003 :

1) Think we are going to design and program our own Webmail for Exchange 2003, first way is to work with normal protocols such as IMAP , POP3 and SMTP. Is there any other way ? for example using exchange own librery for .NET ? If "yes" , please give me a link to a document where I can get more info about that , and please tell me if we have a multy servers enviroment , should we handle servers from the WebMail or the front server will handle this ? Please explain.

2) In witch way do we get the most performance from a webmail, using standard protocols or using exchange 2003 libreries like OWA ?

Thanks for your time
Aboozar

http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/ . Think WebDAV. And post future
questions on this issue to the microsoft.public.exchange.applications forum.
This is a newsgroup for Outlook client issues, not Exchange programming.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"Aboozar" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have two questions about Exchange 2003 :

1) Think we are going to design and program our own Webmail for Exchange
2003, first way is to work with normal protocols such as IMAP , POP3 and
SMTP. Is there any other way ? for example using exchange own librery for
..NET ? If "yes" , please give me a link to a document where I can get more
info about that , and please tell me if we have a multy servers enviroment ,
should we handle servers from the WebMail or the front server will handle
this ? Please explain.

2) In witch way do we get the most performance from a webmail, using
standard protocols or using exchange 2003 libreries like OWA ?

Thanks for your time
Aboozar

Hi - not the best newsgroup for your question. Post in an Exchange newsgroup
& you may get some more expert advice. .

That said - what's the intended goal? OWA for E2003 is pretty darned
fantastic - why wouldn't you just want to use that? You really don't want to
be using POP/IMAP in your environment anyway if you can avoid it, if you
have the better option of just native Exchange mailbox connectivity.....

Aboozar wrote:
Hi,

I have two questions about Exchange 2003 :

1) Think we are going to design and program our own Webmail for
Exchange 2003, first way is to work with normal protocols such as
IMAP , POP3 and SMTP. Is there any other way ? for example using
exchange own librery for .NET ? If "yes" , please give me a link to a
document where I can get more info about that , and please tell me if
we have a multy servers enviroment , should we handle servers from
the WebMail or the front server will handle this ? Please explain.

2) In witch way do we get the most performance from a webmail, using
standard protocols or using exchange 2003 libreries like OWA ?

Thanks for your time
Aboozar