Adrian Holovaty and I don’t share a whole lot — he’s rather a lot smarter than I am, and at this point I’m pretty sure I have more hair (since I haven’t cut it in like six months), but we do have one thing in common: we both rely on Outlook Web Access for reading our mail when away from the office. Though it is significantly improved over previous versions, it still isn’t a perfect webmail solution.
Apparently, Adrian has decided to do something about it. He’s created a Python framework called weboutlook that screen-scrapes Outlook Web Access to provide a better interface. In fact, he even tossed in a simple POP interface to the script so that any ordinary mail client can be used to retrieve mail from the web client. Very spiffy. I just tried it out on my Mac, and it works as advertised. (The sad thing is that it probably works better than trying to use Mail.app as an actual Exchange client, but that’s a rant for another day.) Thanks, always-awesome co-worker!
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