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

[Michael Leone <turgon mike-leone com>]

On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 16:55, Mark Neill wrote:
> 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?

Probably meant MAPI support - being able to access your mailbox on an
Exchange server.
> 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.

It's that Scheduling (especially co-ordinating group schedules) that
makes Exchange so popular in corporations.

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