Another avenue to investigate is ximian-connector. It's written in C and uses Web DAV instead of scraping to get at the email and calendar information.

It's a plugin for the evolution mail client.

http://blogs.cocoondev.org/crafterm/...es/001913.html

kupan -

In OS X (not iPhone OS X), you will not be able to open port 110. The firewall blocks it as far as I know. The iPhone has no firewall, so you can open whatever port you want. So far, we're limited to 110 as the iPhone does not appear to allow you to change the default port.

Stat and list should give you something if the script is working right (and you have messages in your inbox). Whatever page your iPhone is downloading does not have a list of messages on it.

The delay will be between sending the first command after login (doesn't matter what it is) and the server's response. If the server responds immediately, it didn't download anything.

You can try to find out what is on the page that the iPhone's looking at; this could give you a clue as to what's going wrong. I'm assuming you're using the forms version of the scraper. Run python on the iPhone from the folder you're keeping scraper.py in:

Code:

/usr/bin/python

then enter these commands at the Python command line:

Code:

from scraper import OutlookWebScraper, CookieScraper
import re, socket, urllib, urlparse
from Cookie import SimpleCookie

then set up your login information and login:

Code:

s = OutlookWebScraper('https://webmaildomain.com', 'username', 'correct password')
s.login

If everything goes well, Python will say nothing, just give you another command prompt. If there are errors, it'll spit them out. Now try:

Code:

url = s.get_page('https://webmaildomain.com/username/Inbox?Cmd=contents')
print url

The last line will display the entire contents of the page.

Originally Posted by lh99

kupan -

Stat and list should give you something if the script is working right (and you have messages in your inbox). Whatever page your iPhone is downloading does not have a list of messages on it.

Seeing how it all works on my laptop, I am guessing it is the fact I am hardcoding that 'm' value in the scraper file. When I don't hardcode it on my laptop, I get the emails. When I do hardcode it for my iPhone, no luck. I am 99% sure I am filling it with the correct value. If I login via the web, View Source on the frame with my messages, and I copy what is in the <BASE href> tag, I see: https://mail.MYCOMPANY.org/exchange/USERNAME/

Originally Posted by lh99

You can try to find out what is on the page that the iPhone's looking at; this could give you a clue as to what's going wrong. I'm assuming you're using the forms version of the scraper. Run python on the iPhone from the folder you're keeping scraper.py in:

Code:

/usr/bin/python

then enter these commands at the Python command line:

Code:

from scraper import OutlookWebScraper, CookieScraper
import re, socket, urllib, urlparse
from Cookie import SimpleCookie

then set up your login information and login:

Code:

s = OutlookWebScraper('https://webmaildomain.com', 'username', 'correct password')
s.login

If everything goes well, Python will say nothing, just give you another command prompt. If there are errors, it'll spit them out. Now try:

Code:

url = s.get_page('https://webmaildomain.com/username/Inbox?Cmd=contents')
print url

The last line will display the entire contents of the page.

So it looks like it is just taking me to the login screen. I've checked and double checked my username and password entires, and my mail website, but it all looks ok. I'm just not getting why the whole setup works on my laptop, but not my iPhone...

So it looks like it is just taking me to the login screen. I've checked and double checked my username and password entires, and my mail website, but it all looks ok. I'm just not getting why the whole setup works on my laptop, but not my iPhone...

Somehow, the iPhone is not logging in properly, or it's not following the OWA redirects. I can't think of any reason why there would be a difference between your laptop and the iPhone assuming both are running Python 2.5. Since I don't have access to an OWA account with forms-based authentication, I can't dig deeper into this.

Another tool I used in the process of developing the HTTP-authentication version is CURL. It's in the iPhone binkit under /usr/bin. CURL is a UNIX tool that allows you to download web pages, files, etc. It supports POST and HTTPS and may be easier to work with than the Python scripts (as it runs from the command line). Give it a try; if you can get your Inbox page to download correctly in CURL, we can figure out how to do the same thing in Python.

On the Web Dav front, here is a thread describing a python script that uses webdav to move exchange data into a pop account. Seems like someone could take its webdav code and your IMAP code and merge them.

Edit: Forgot to add the url - http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1424

Originally Posted by jtokash

On the Web Dav front, here is a thread describing a python script that uses webdav to move exchange data into a pop account. Seems like someone could take its webdav code and your IMAP code and merge them.

Edit: Forgot to add the url - http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1424

This looks very interesting (and based on the same script I'm using). It appears to be a much more efficient way to get the emails from OWA as compared with the web scraping methodology. The ability to tag messages as sent to the iPhone could allow me to avoid a lot of extra code that I was planning to implement in order to speed up the script. I will take a closer look tonight...

does anyone have a webdav documentation or tutorial? Id like to look at getting contacts for my OTA conacts sync


EDIT: I wonder if this is of any use: http://www.econetwork.net/~jdavis/Software/PyDAV/

Originally Posted by lampcov

Don't know if this is of interest. but there is an open source app called pop2owa that uses OWA RPC to get email AND SENT email, and to the iphone it's a pop3 server. It's written in VB and runs on windows. I've got it installed and it does work, connecting to my work exchange, but it is unstable.

unstable? why?, please give me your feedback

Originally Posted by lampcov

I know the python script runs ON the iphone which is cool, but maybe if someone with VB experience had a hand this could be a good solution as it supports attachments, and SENDING of mail as well, which is huge. I have both Macs and PCs in my environment so it's not a big deal that it's Windoze. Entourgage uses the RPC also so i'm sure it could be "ported" to the Mac.

Just a thought.

Yes, it could be "ported" to the Mac, if any one needs help of pop2owa developer (me), please send me a mail.

Originally Posted by lh99

This looks very interesting (and based on the same script I'm using). It appears to be a much more efficient way to get the emails from OWA as compared with the web scraping methodology.

Using webdav you can get the original message in RFC 821 format, that can be parsed by one standard email client without problems.

You only need send one GET reguest with the following headers:

.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "text/xml"
.setRequestHeader "Depth", "infinity"
.setRequestHeader "Translate", "f"

Send me a mail if you need support with webdav commands.

Un saludo
Carlos Garcés

0.0.4 Released

Mostly speed and security 'improvements.' See the Google Code site for the latest download and details.

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-pop3-outlook/