Python Exchange ActiveSync Library

Question

Is anyone familiar with an Exchange ActiveSync library or open source client for python? I've done preliminary searching with little to no success. I've seen some examples for C#, but I figured I'd ask around here before my attempt to port anything over.

In case you're curious. This would be an extension of an already existing linux based IMAP / POP3 client. Moving to Windows / C# this late in the game isn't really an option.

Warga

i should also mention that activesync would be a great solution for being able to access gmail over http, for platforms such as appengine which don't allow sockets (and therefore, imap). incidentally, what are you trying to do? – Fishgig

Specifically, the first phase would include collecting email messages from all folders from Hotmail. – Warga

I'll note that as of December 2012, planning for GMail access via ActiveSync is a bad idea since Google has deprecated and will be discontinuing "consumer" ActiveSync. – Hamachi

Microsoft claims to hold patents on Exchange ActiveSync. So if you add ActiveSync to your client, you might wish to warn your users that it is a patent-encumbered protocol. – Ceroplastic

Answer 1

On Debian 9:

apt-get install mercurial python-twisted
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/drspringfield/py-eas-client
cd py-eas-client
python setup.py install
python imap_to_eas_proxy.py --domain example.org --server mail.example.org --device_id myID.example.net

then connect via insecure IMAP to localhost:3143 and log in as normal. (For the Exchange server I was trying to connect to, this just threw Activesync error Connection lost, but it might work on other Exchange servers and/or when py-eas-client is improved.)

Ceroplastic

Dead link, so dead answer – Engrave

@ThomasWard try this instead: git clone https://github.com/ghiewa/py-eas-client (found by searching Google for "py-eas-client" and looking for where it's currently hosted) – Ceroplastic