RE: [Evolution] Question: MS Exchange support, timeline?

[Mark Neill <mark thisismyown com>]

MAPI suport...hehe.

Exchange does not speak simple MAPI.  Exchange uses Extended MAPI.  As
opposed to the 12 API calls that MAPI supports, EMAPI includes a few
hundred, many of which are not decumented very well, and ofr th emost part
are available only in an EMAPI SDK available from Microsoft.

And as of Beta3, the calendaring is almost there.  Actually, calendaring
works, the trick is getting it working transparently.  I don't use it
right now, but fomr other people on the list who have written, you can
import the appointment attachments into your calendar, and they work.  Or
maybe open the attachment to get the meeting.  I'm not sure :)

Either way, it's not far from being there...use the client, and point out
bugs, and report them so the Ximian guys can fix em up for the 1.0
release.

As far as the composer error....there's lots of bugs about that, look
through the Bigzilla database and see if anything works for you.

--Mark


On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rakich, Richard wrote:

> In that case, when will the scheduling be working with an Exchange server?
> I'd love to get away from M$ Outlook but I rely to heavily on the calendar
> to do so now.  That and I still get the Composer issue of "Can't create
> composer window" error.
>
> RichR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Neill [mailto:mark thisismyown com]
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:55 PM
> To: evolution ximian com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Question: MS Exchange support, timeline?
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Connel MacKenzie wrote:
> > I have a question: is there an estimate as to when we may see support for
> > Exchange?  Will it never happen, or is it just incredibly difficult?
>
> What do you mean, support Exchange?
>
> Evolution already gets mail from an Exchange server.  Add a POP3 account
> and point it at your Exchange server.
>
> The only other part is the Scaeduling, and the current dillema is the
> inlining of calendar requests in a manner that is intuitive for Outlook to
> accept them.
>
> Exchange is a back-end server; supporting it is trivial.
>
>
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