OWA Dump

I always try to find a way to make my work more convenient. Recently my company decided to drop all employee blackberries and instead to provide us with allowance for our own phones. Everything would be great if not this one little problem with that. I get a lot of alerts and status updates on my work email and by a lot i mean A LOT. I wanted to have an ability to quickly check my work email when I wanted, with minimal impact to my phone configuration and battery life. The trick is that the only way to do that is either through Exchange Server or through Outlook Web Access (OWA). I started analyzing my options and finally settled on something that could dump my email list to a file in the cloud that I can easily view from anywhere, when I want, and without inconvenient login system. Then I realized that dumping a text file to my dropbox would be the best option.

At this point I needed something that could read emails by connecting to Exchange Server or by parsing emails from OWA. Exchange Server route seemed too complicated for my needs so I started working on OWA parsing script. I decided to use VBScript due to easy IE automation. At the end I had a script dumping all my emails to a text file. I set that text file to sync with my dropbox and scheduled the script to run on a short interval. Problem solved.

Check out the script here: http://mattstypa.com/owa-dump/