Re: [Evolution-hackers] MAPI backend

[Patrick Ohly <Patrick Ohly gmx de>]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 20:22 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> I don't have root access, therefore I compiled all the required
> components (Samba, libmapi, EDS, Evolution) from source. I haven't tried
> to run it yet.

I'm on Exchange 2007 now. Setting up the MAPI backend worked, but I had
to patch the source to get past a calendar authentication problem [1].
Afterwards I could see some events, but not all. It seems that recurring
meetings are not yet supported: these seem to be the ones that I'm
missing and creating one anew leads to an unspecific error message.

I need the MAPI backend primarily for calendars. As it is now I cannot
use it (most of my meetings are recurring), so I'll have to depend on
OWA for the time being.

FWIW, I also had other problems (I don't plan to file bug reports for
those because I assume that it's too early for that):
      * the character set for emails were detected incorrectly, thus
        displaying emails with English text with Chinese (?) characters
      * After fixing the calendar authentication problem, LDAP started
        to show signs of life on the console: for over an hour before I
        left I saw log messages about LDAP contacts being downloaded
        continuously. I considered killing it as it seemed to download
        all contacts, but I decided to give it a chance - perhaps it'll
        stop eventually by itself. In the GUI I haven't been able to get
        any results so far (another important usage for me).

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550474

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