Outlook Redemption or Advanced Security for Outlook?

[Guggly]

Hi! I'm working on a project which will require accessing mail in Outlook. The way to get around Outlook's security prompts which I'm most familiar with is by using Outlook Redemption. However, in researching a bit today, I found another option, which is "Advanced Security for Outlook" made by MAPILabs (

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/security/),

which from what I understand simply disables the security prompts for certain programs.

Any thoughts on which is better to use? The MAPILabs option seems simpler, but is it secure enough?

Thanks!

 

[chrissie1]

Better is to contact the exchange server directly. Or use .net mail classes.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"In a system where you can define a factor as part of a third factor, you need another layer to check the main layer in case the second layer is not the base unit." - jrbarnett

 

[Guggly]

Christiaan, how would I do that, what do I search for to get on the right path? I'm not looking to send mail from my app, but rather to actually access the contents of the Outlook PST and work with the mail in that way.

Thanks for your reply! -- Mike

 

[chrissie1]

And what do you want to do with the PST?

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

"In a system where you can define a factor as part of a third factor, you need another layer to check the main layer in case the second layer is not the base unit." - jrbarnett

 

[Guggly]

I'm not exactly sure what all I will need to do, but for sure I will need to give the user the option to select which mail folder to use, then pull out and save any attachments in the emails, as well as log details (not sure of which, but probably all the basics: To, From, Subject, Body, Time, etc.) into a database.

Thanks!