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

[Holger Goetz <holgerg hgsys de>]

Hi Suman, Johnny,

1st: That's great news! Thanks for all your efforts around MAPI and Exchange2007!

2nd: What version of evolution is expected as minimum? 

Is there any magic beside of 

installation, 
exporting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for samba4 
and activating the plugin,  

to get a "MAPI" or alike selection the the "Server Type" drop down? (The plugin is there and can be activated/is activated)

BTW: tested on 2 systems: Ubuntu 7.02, Evolution 2.12.1 and plain debian-sid 2.12.2-1+b1 ... 
Couldn't test w/ 2.21.90 from trunk of svn - as the rpm's install in default libs and not into "/opt/evo/...." or alike.

Thanks,
Holger




On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 21:32 +0530, Suman wrote:
>     Just to give a heads-up on what WON'T work w.r.t. calendars/tasks/memos: 
>     
>     + no meetings/assigned tasks support.. (we're waiting on a few APIs to be made available by libmapi) 
>     + no recurring events [1]
>     + freebusy info (the first point would make this irrelavant.. but..) 
>     
>     The rest of the basic features would *mostly* work.. 
>     Comparing the plugin to the current Exchange connector.. feature-wise... MAPI stilllllll has a long way to go.. :) 
>     
>     Looking forward to a lot of people trying/testing the RPMs and getting back to us with their invaluable feedback.. TIA !!
>     
>     [1] events = appointments/meetings.. unfortunately, Evolution does not support recurring tasks yet.. so.. don't wait on that.. 
>     
>     regards, 
>     Suman
>     
>     P.S. ohhh... btw.. Outlook notes ~= Evolution memos.. 
>     
>     On Jan 18, 2008 7:50 PM, Jacob Johnny <jjohnny novell com > wrote:
> >         Hello guys,
> >         
> >         This is an announce mail for the preview of Evolution MAPI provider. 
> >         This provider can connect to Exchange 2007 servers and also to Exchange
> >         2003, 2000 and 5.5 (untested).
> >         
> >         After seeing enormous interest by the users in Exchange 2007
> >         connectivity, we have prepared a preview of the current development code 
> >         from the branch. The evolution-mapi-provider is a standalone rpm but in
> >         future it may be part of the Evolution/EDS rpms. It has a dependency on
> >         OpenChange's ( http://openchange.org ) libmapi and Samba4.
> >         
> >         I'm maintaining the build service project for the provider and I'm
> >         planning to give RPMs for OpenSUSE, SLED, Fedora and Ubuntu. We would be
> >         doing incremental releases of this periodically and may have nightly 
> >         builds for this pretty soon (Don't ask me when ;-)
> >         
> >         The below url should let you access the Samba4, libmapi and Evolution
> >         MAPI Provider rpms.
> >         http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jjohnny:/evolution-exchange-mapi-provider
> >         
> >         Due to the recent outage of OpenSUSE Build Service, we aren't able to
> >         get the rpms ready. So I have built RPMs for opensuse 10.3/i586 alone
> >         and is available at:
> >         
> >         http://gnomebangalore.org/~sragavan/exchange-mapi/i586/ .
> >         
> >         The build for the project is already queued. So it is possible that by 
> >         the time, you read the mail, the rpms might have been published already.
> >         So go check out and give your valuable feedback.
> >         
> >         ****** IMPORTANT - DISCLAIMER *******
> >         
> >              * The build could be very unstable and may crash frequently. 
> >              * Don't report these issues on to Evolution bugzilla atm. We will
> >                create the components and let you all know it. Mean while, you
> >                can write your comments/bugs at
> >                http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider/Bugs and we will
> >                migrate them to bugzilla a little later.
> >              * It is not yet feature complete. We don't have public folders/GAL
> >                yet. EMail subjects appear corrupted and lots of other known 
> >                issues :)
> >              * Most of the features are untested
> >              * You need to export the Samba4 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/samba4/lib
> >              * At Last: I'm not responsible for any serious damage caused due
> >                to the package. So try it at your own risk!!! :)
> >         
> >         Thanks
> >         Johnny. 
> >     
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