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

[Connel MacKenzie <connel lindows com>]

On Friday 24 August 2001 15:31, Mark Neill wrote:
> 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.

So my question becomes, is anyone trying to integrate support for the 
extended, non-standard, proprietary, poorly documented Exchange APIs?

If anyone is even trying, how has their progress been?

> 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 :)

The trick, indeed, is getting it working transparently.  I absolutely agree.

> 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.

Yes, it is not too far.  And yes, it is looking great.