Accessing Exchange mailbox with ASP

I need to access a user's outlook "contacts" using ASP. They are stored within the user's "contacts" folder inside their mailbox on the Exchange server (Exchange 2003).

Script will need to log in to user's Exchange mailbox, access their "contacts" folder and parse them to display on page.

Put simply, all im trying to do is a Phone-book style app that pulls data from two different sources. The first source (Active Directory) I can do, its the second source (Exchange mailbox) that im having trouble with.

I can pull data from Active Directory / Exchange GAL for display on the pages just cant find a way to get stuff from the mailstore.

If it can't be done without an Active X component, then fair enough, just thought i'd ask out here

Many thanks in advance....

Ste

You can do it with CDO, but it's slow - probably too slow.