10. A system for providing data stored in a mailfile to an application, comprising: a mailfile stored on a server, having data stored as documents with sections; a database for passing a request from an application running on a user workstation, for one of said documents to said mailfile and upon return of said one of said documents, converting said one of said documents into an extended markup format; an authentication directory having authentication records for an application; and mail and calendaring web service software running on a server different from said workstation, for receiving said request from said application for a document, receiving text files in an extended markup format from said database, accessing binary data from said mailfile, creating an object comprising the converted document with said binary data inserted, authenticating said application using said directory, and sending said object to said application.
10. A system for providing data stored in a mailfile to an application, comprising: a mailfile stored on a server, having data stored as documents with sections; a database for passing a request from an application running on a user workstation, for one of said documents to said mailfile and upon return of said one of said documents, converting said one of said documents into an extended markup format; an authentication directory having authentication records for an application; and mail and calendaring web service software running on a server different from said workstation, for receiving said request from said application for a document, receiving text files in an extended markup format from said database, accessing binary data from said mailfile, creating an object comprising the converted document with said binary data inserted, authenticating said application using said directory, and sending said object to said application. 15. The system of claim 10 , wherein said binary data is an image file.