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

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Holger,

The RPM was built for Evolution 2.12/OpenSUSE 10.3. But if you get hold
of the source, my guess is that you can use it from Evolution 2.4
onwards ;-) 

Also, our hands were tied, as the OpenSUSE build service had a bad week
and we couldn't do much. We should be able to build binaries for all the
OpenSUSE build service supported Distros (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian,
Ubuntu, Mandriva) and for versions 2.12 and above (current 2.21.x). Of
course, we might need a bit of tweaking for debs in the spec files,
which aren't yet done and any one is free to do that and help us.

-Srini.

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:51 +0100, Holger Goetz wrote:
> 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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