Automate New Mail Account for Exchange

I'm trying to create a applescript that will ask the user for the their password and then create their mail account. I can get the username, name, and email address from their active directory record so no need to ask the user that. The problem I'm running into, is that scripting for exchange seems almost not doable. In the script that comes in /Library/Scripts they only work with .Mac, POP, and IMAP types, but no exchange.
The funny part is that when a new user goes into mail the first time, just by giving the username, email address, and password it can autodiscover everything it needs and set up the account. So is there a way for applescript to tell mail these pieces of information and then tell it to autodiscover the account?
Is there a way to do this using a bash script?

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global theUsername
global thePassword
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set theResult to true
if theResult is not equal to false
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#set theUsername to getUsername()
#set thePassword to getPassword()
#set theEmailAddresses to getEmailAddress()
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