Re: [Evolution] Exchange Outlook Mail Catagories

[Jeremey Wise <Jeremey Wise Agilysys com>]

Well it's official. I have been given orders that if I can not fix these
two issues:

1) Reply on behalf of for a mailbox (I have skirted this one for a while
but an IMAP mailbox does not have the ability to 'send on behalf of).

2) View Flags (which I was going to skirt by watching the messages in
Outlook client via WINE then pull the file back local when I pick it up)

I have two weeks to find a solution or I have to convert ALL my mail
back to Outlook. This will effectively end my 'experiment with Linux if
I can not get Outlook to work correctly (their are a few stability
issues with Outlook reading large complex emails under WINE which is why
I looked to evolution).

Any comments are welcomed. I understand their perspective but am racking
my brain to find a way around these two issues.

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:12 -0500, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> :>( !!!!!!!!!
>
> Being as Evolution Connector uses HTML (OWA) function to interface with
> exchange I wanted to check into if even OWA had the ability to see these
> stupid flags. (Our IS department was planning on an upgrade to the new
> OWA interface and so was trying to buy some time) 
>
> As it stands I have tried to find some way IMAP interface can see these
> flags embedded in the emails but it seems to be some server thing. I
> have vi a half dozen emails before their being flagged and after and
> their seems to be nothing in the mail itself about flags. If this can
> not be fixed I have been given marching orders to convert to Outlook. I
> have a couple weeks to find a way around it but that is all. I have
> about 3GB of eMail to convert (though I will enjoy crushing the email
> server as a little retribution for forcing me back to Lookout).
>
> If their is any hope please chime in. If their is hope I can possibly
> buy some time but my boss has been supportive of my SuSE jump but can
> not justify upstream my deviation if it impacts the business flow.
>
> PS: Their is still a debate that we will be converting all the global
> boxes into a Lotus Notes system. If this is the case how can / will
> Evolution interface with this environment? If it CAN interface with
> Notes then I may use that to buy more time, but if not I will have to
> work harder to get Lotus Notes Client to work under wine (which is
> another user group I get to work with now :>)
>
> Thx.
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 16:51 -0500, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> > No, it is NOT in OWA.. which means it would be parsing the mail to get
> > the flag. What I have found is that someone has to have modify rights on
> > the email to 'flag' it and as such have attached two email examples. One
> > without the flag and one with. The problem I had is that as the mailbox
> > is IMAP I had to send two emails because as I suck down the eMail via
> > IMAP it does not seem to get updated. I opened it up with vi and tried
> > to find the 'categories' field but not much luck. Their did not seem to
> > be any differences. Their HAS to be some way I can 'see' these stupid
> > flags. (I would like to set them also but If I have to revert to Outlook
> > to set a flag I will)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 16:39 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: 
> > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:19 -0500, Jeremey Wise wrote:
> > > > Just wanted to post more details I just received  for those willing to
> > > > help:
> > > >
> > > > **********************
> > > > The other group uses the "Categories" field within Outlook to mark an
> > > > email
> > > > accordingly.  We can do this as well, using one of the default
> > > > categories (or we can decide what kind of category we want to use and
> > > > implement it on the server)
> > >
> > > To start the ball rolling here, is this category stuff even available
> > > when using straight OWA in a web browser?
> > >
> > > -JP 
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