Re: [Evolution-hackers] MAPI support not even close... ?!?! Can I help?

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 22:34 +0100, Thomas Novin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 14:42 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Hi all.  I'm really confused by messages from people who say they're
> > using Evolution with MAPI support and it's working just fine for them.
> > I can't understand it: it's so far from working for me that there must
> > be something I'm doing wrong or something about my environment which is
> > very different from others.
> 
> I tried evolution-mapi 2.28.1 in Ubuntu Karmic 32-bit (read bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472552 about getting 2.28.1 in karmic).
> 
> Except that all my calendar entries are off by one hour, they are one
> hour early I actually haven't found one bug. I have read lots of emails
> in different folder, looked at calendar entries back and forth.

I tried this and it's a disaster.  Every single attempt to connect to
the Exchange 2007 server causes Evolution to dump core.  I had to start
it with --offline to keep it up long enough that I could delete my
Exchange MAPI account.

I then tried to re-add my Exchange MAPI account and the instant I
clicked the "Authenticate" button in the "add new account" wizard,
Evolution dumped core again.

At least with the latest code on the gnome-2.28 branch (built from git)
Evo doesn't crash.  Of course I still have tons of bugs, but it stays
up! :-)