MS Exchange notification in a block

MS Exchange notification in a block

by Shaun Daubney -
Number of replies: 1
Our learners/students all have MS Exchange accounts at the College with webmail access. Is there anyway to have a block in Moodle that tells them how many unread emails (or lists them) they have?
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In reply to Shaun Daubney

Re: MS Exchange notification in a block

by Dave Perry -
Shaun,

Exchange is a microsoft product, so the web access version is unlikely to be PHP code. I don't have access to any exchange servers, but you COULD try using some generic PHP webmail code that lists messages via POP3 (or IMAP - depends what your server will listen to. Might need to get it re-configured by your sys admin/tech team) and see if that works as basis for block code? Alternatively, you might (I'm struggling on a quick google) be able to find some ASP code (if your moodle is running on IIS) to do it - I've seen a handful of referenes to ASP.NET code for Exchange 2003, but those authors haven't tested it to query an Exchange 2000 server. Hope that helps.

Dave