Re: 3.6 Feature: Exchange support in Online Accounts (or GOA)

[Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 07:08:19PM +0000, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> Here is a feature proposal to add support for Exchange accounts in Online
> Accounts (or GOA): https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/GoaExchange
> 
> Online Accounts (in Git master) has been taught how to handle Exchange accounts
> using Exchange Web Services [1]. This means that a user can go to the Online
> Accounts panel in System Settings and enter his account details. If this turns
> out to be a valid account, the details will be accessible to other applications
> using the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts service.

  Why Web Services and not MAPI? Web Services sounds like going through
some fragile abstraction layer, MAPI seems more "direct".

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