Re: [Evolution] Testing Exchange Mapi Branch

["Jacob Johnny" <jjohnny novell com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 08:34 +0100, Carsten Nikiel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since my company has forcefully moved us all to Exchange 2007 Server I
> needed an alternative to the old Exchange Connector.
> So I tried to test the svn version of the EXCHANGE-MAPI-BRANCH.
> After a LOT of problems getting it to work.
> (Needed the SAMBA 4.0 Test branch, plus manually placing the openldap
> patch, adding a missing .h include and a missing typdedef, etc)
> I finally got it to work.

RPMs are available here :
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jjohnny:/evolution-exchange-mapi-provider/


> But it is extremely SLOW and seems to not understand most of the
> mails.
> I am getting TONS of "illegal multibyte character" conversion errors
> which seem to result in not showing the @ sign in any emails.

can you give us some more information. like paste the errors from
terminal here.

> So replying to an email is cumbersome to say the least.
> Also refreshing of the inbox is very slow, as it seems to read the
> complete attachments each and every time it refreshes.

This will be fixed ASAP.

> Unfortunately the "EXPUNGE" folder does not work, so the inbox keeps
> growing, which makes refreshing it even slower over time.

This feature is not there yet. Probably I should post write wiki page
with the list of features completed.

> 
> Maybe I am missing some configuration details here?

I guess not. MAPI Provider is under development.

> E.G. is it somehow possible to get the multibyte character stuff
> working correctly?
> 

Can you provide us with some more information ... And if it is not
confidential can u export the mail and send it to me.

> 
> I would be happy to help testing as I really like the possibility to
> use my Linux box for emails and not needing to startup Windows just
> for my emails.
> 
> Great work so far and let me know if I can help.

There is a IRC channel : #evo-mapi on GIMPNet (irc.gimp.org). 
Would be cool if u can drop in . I would like to know the setups of your
exchange server and probably some more information :-)

Thanks,
Johnny