Opens or closes a persistent connection to an Microsoft Exchange server. You must have a persistent or temporary connection to use the cfexchangecalendar, cfexchangecontact, cfexchangemail, and cfexchangetask tags to get or change information on the Exchange server.
<cfexchangeconnection action="open" connection="" server="" username="">
cfexchangeconnection(action="open", connection="", server="", username="");
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
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| action | string | Yes | The action to take. Must be open or close. (required) | |
| connection | string | Yes | The name of the connection. You specify this ID when you close the connection and in tags such as cfexchangemail. (required) |
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| mailboxName | string | No | The ID of the Exchange mailbox to use. Specify this attribute to access a mailbox whose owner has delegated access rights to the account specified in the username attribute. (optional) |
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| password | string | No | (open) The users password for accessing the Exchange server. (optional) | |
| port | numeric | No | The port on the server connect to, most commonly port 80. (optional) | |
| protocol | string | No | The protocol to use for the connection. Valid values are http and https. (optional) | |
| proxyHost | string | No | The URL or IP address of the proxy host required for access to the network. (optional) | |
| proxyPort | string | No | The port on the proxy server to connect to, most commonly port 80. (optional) | |
| server | string | Yes | The IP address or URL of the server that is providing access to Exchange. (required) | |
| username | string | Yes | The Exchange user ID (required) | |
| folder | string | No | The forward slash (/) delimited path from the root of the mailbox to the folder for which to get subfolders. | |
| recurse | boolean | No | NO | * true: get information on the immediate subfolders of the specified folder only. * false: get information on all levels of subfolders of the specified folder. |
| name | string | No | The name of the ColdFusion query variable that contains information about the subfolders. | |
| exchangeServerLanguage | string | No | The language of the Exchange server. Default is English. | |
| formBasedAuthentication | boolean | No | A Boolean value that specifies whether to display a login form and use form based authentication when making the connection. |