Re: [Evolution-hackers] Exchange 2007 - MAPI Provider preview

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Paul/Per,

IIRC Julien mentioned that to use Exchange 2007 against Outlook 2003,
the Public Folder store got to be created. Evolution with libmapi would
be like a Outlook 2003, connecting to Exchange 2007. It should be click
to activate it on the server. If not for Evolution, then it might be
asked for Outlook 2003 client to work with 2007 servers. If it isn't
there also, we possibly might get a failure during login.

-Srini.

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:05 -0800, Per Nystrom wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:31 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 00:47 +0530, Suman Manjunath wrote:
> > > to be able to use the MAPI plugin, your Exchange mailbox should be
> > > enabled for MAPI. this is a setting on the server. it is a common
> > > issue to not have it enabled.
> > 
> > Curious.  Does that mean that Outlook can talk to an Exchange mailbox
> > WITHOUT having it enabled for MAPI?  I would like to know more about
> > this.  One putative advantage of using MAPI, to me, would be that the
> > corporate IT department wouldn't even know you're using Evolution.  They
> > wouldn't have to make ANY changes specifically for Evo users, not even
> > to enable OWA (if they didn't have it enabled already).
> > 
> > So, if there are still Exchange mods that have to be made beyond what's
> > needed for Outlook users we should get in front of that I think.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> 
> Agreed.  I thought MAPI is the protocol Outlook uses to communicate with
> Exchange.  If this is not the case and there is some other uber-secret
> special protocol instead, it would behoove us to figure that one out.
> 
> I don't expect my Exchange administrator to make any special
> accommodations for me just because I use a different client than
> Outlook.
> 
> Thanks,
> Per
> 
> 
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