Re: [Evolution] wish-list (MS-Exchange support != MAPI support)

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

Hi

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:20:21PM -0700, mario santana autodesk com wrote:
> <
>
> > If someone here has Exchange, I would love if they could:
> >
> >     1. Research what protocol Exchange uses to communicate with
> >            Outlook clients.
>
> It appears to be "simple" MSRPC calls. MSRPC is a (surprise!)
> bastardized DCE-RPC. The steps to re would be:
>
> a) implement dce-rpc. There is at least one open
> implementation out there, but it's not free. I don't know how
> picky you guys are with licensing (I hope *very*) but maybe if
> the exchange stuff were shipped separately... IANAL.
>
> b) bastardize dce-rpc until the endpoint mapper works with
> msrpc. This sounds like tedious work, including getting really
> friendly with a good sniffer.
>
> c) re the rpc's spewed by outlook and exchange. Someone with
> MSVC++ libs, headers and docs could probably go a long way
> down this road.
>
> If it sounds like a large project, that's because it is.

Samba uses MS-RPC calls.  Maybe someone should have a talk with
Luke Leighton or some other Samba developers?

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