JavaMail and Exchange Server

Question

Hi All,
I am having trouble reading from an Exchange Server. I am running my application from a windows machine and I can connect to the exchange server but when I try to open the folder, I get an error saying:
javax.mail.MessagingException: A3 NO There is no replica for that mailbox on this server.;
nested exception is:
     com.sun.mail.iap.CommandFailedException: A3 NO There is no replica for that mailbox on this server.
     at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.doCommand(IMAPFolder.java:2125)
     at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.exists(IMAPFolder.java:406)
     at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.checkExists(IMAPFolder.java:280)A3 NO There is no replica for that mailbox on this server.
     at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.open(IMAPFolder.java:779)
     at htmlparse.HtmlParserTest.readInBox(HtmlParserTest.java:123)
     at htmlparse.HtmlParserTest.main(HtmlParserTest.java:407)
Here is my code:
// Get a Properties object
Properties props = System.getProperties();
// Get a Session object
Session session = Session.getInstance(props, null);
session.setDebug(debug);
// Get a Store object
Store store = session.getStore(protocol);
if (host != null || user != null || password != null)
store.connect(host, port, user, password);
System.out.println("isConnected = [" + store.isConnected() + "]");
IMAPFolder inBox = (IMAPFolder)store.getFolder("INBOX");
inBox.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
//try {
// folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
//} catch (MessagingException ex) {
// folder.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);
System.out.println("isOpen = [" inBox.isOpen() "]");
//folder = folder.getFolder(mbox);
System.out.println("###################### 1");
if (inBox == null) {
System.out.println("Invalid folder");
System.exit(1);
System.out.println("###################### 2");
//System.out.println("folderExist = [" + folder.exists() + "]");
System.out.println("######################### " + inBox.getFullName());
// try to open read/write and if that fails try read-only
//try {
// folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
//} catch (MessagingException ex) {
// folder.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);
// try to open read/write and if that fails try read-only
//folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
//System.out.println("************************** 1");
int totalMessages = inBox.getNewMessageCount();
if (totalMessages == 0) {
System.out.println("Empty folder");
inBox.close(false);
store.close();
System.exit(1);
The protocal is "IMAP".
Appreciate any help that you can provide.
Thanks in advance.
-r

Answer 1

Late reply to this, but i just went through this excercise and was not able to "google" a good solution..
We solved it by asking our exchange admin where the mailbox we were trying to access actually resides.
This will be a different domain than your "refering" exchange server..
We then modified our session store code to access that specific server.. this will be the value you use for mailHost
store.connect(mailHost,storeUsername,storePassword);[more info on IMAP referrals|http://support.microsoft.com/kb/217388]
hope this helps.