creating mail list from column in external database

[Glen]

Did a bit of googling on this, but I'm mostly finding 3rd party
solutions for this, there must be a way to to this with what I have.

We are using outlook 2000 on exchange 2003, and I have a table in an
Oracle 9i database that has a column with email addresses in it. One of
the users want to have a mailing list or address book current with what
is in the database, as automated as possible. Exporting a list and
importing it would be easy enough, but I'd sooner not go this route as
it would have to be done everytime the database changed.

I'm the Oracle DBA, so I'm not real familiar with Exchange or Outlook,
and I was thinking that I may even be able to use Oracle Internet
Directory (LDAP) somehow, although I have just implemented this product
for names reslution and am not real familiar with all its capabilities
as of yet.

Any other suggestions or ideas?


thanks in advance

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If Oracle has built-in support to expose a database as LDAP, that should be all you need, since Outlook supports LDAP natively.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers