Re: [Evolution] Active Directory

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 15:55 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> Pardon my being a whiner but doesn't this make Evolution as an Exchange
> replacement rather broken.

Who ever said it was an Exchange replacement?

>  I puchased Evolution under the pretense that
> I could replace all major functionality. Being able to query to whom in
> corporate the message will be going to is rather critical in nature.

Evolution only speaks the IETF blessed standard protocols. AD is not an IETF protocol, it's a proprietary Microsoft product (it's not a protocol afaik). AD is accessed via the proprietary Exchange protocol (which is not publicly documented and would be a royal pita to reverse engineer). Connector works with Exchange only when Exchange opens up the WebDAV interfaces. Perhaps Connector can talk to your AD, but Evolution certainly cannot.

Jeff

> Now that I am done ranting: Is it (or has someone) build a local
> OpenLDAP server and connection from it to AD, then pointed Evolution to
> the local Open LDAP service for name lookup? Based on my limited RTFM it
> seems this not only can be done but is the only route to get Linux to
> speak to AD (ie not just modifications to a client but having to
> impliment the full server on each host). 
>
> Input greatly apreaciated.
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Evolution doesn't support Active Directory, it only supports LDAP
> > (unless Connector supports AD, but that's a separate product that I
> > know very little about - same for most every Evolution hacker).
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:55 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: 
> > > How do I get Evolution to talk to active directory for email account
> > > lookup. I googled around. This is the only major catch for migration
> > > from Outlook to Evolution. It is a 'show stopper' though as I can't type
> > > worth a darn.
> > > 
> > > Pointing me to documentation is perfectly fine. I googled around and hit
> > > only stuff from RH 6.2 erra.
> > > 
> > > THanks,
> > > 
> > > Jeremey Wise.
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