Re: [Evolution] Exchange: evolution-brutus 1.1.6 is out

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

Hi Peter,

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 08:34 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 8/17/06, Jules Colding <colding omesc com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > evolution-brutus 1.1.6 is now available. This Evolution plugin provides
> > Outlook level access to Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007 from Evolution
> > 2.4 and 2.6.
>
> pardon me, but I don't get it.
>
> Is this a replacement for the "exchange plugin" for evolution? Is
> "brutus" just a code-name for the newest version of the "exchange
> plugin", or is this something entirely different?

This is something different. Not entirely different but close. 

Brutus is a framework that provides MAPI access to any Exchange server
(version 5.5 or later). evolution-brutus (e-b) is a plugin to Evolution
2.[4,6] that provides access to a Brutus server and thereby to any
Exchange server.

e-b is therefore an alternative to evolution-exchange. The big
difference is that while evolution-exchange is using WebDAV to connect
to the Exchange server, e-b is in effect using native MAPI, just like
Outlook is. 

e-b supports Exchange mail, calendar and tasks.


> Is this something that can be installed seperatly from the particular
> installation of evo that is already installed (assuming some verison
> of 2.4 and above)?

It must be installed next to an existing installation of Evolution. e-b
is not distributed with Evolution (but I would like that to change). The
good thing is that you don't need to build e-b from source if you are on
FC4 or FC5. You can get RPMs here:

Fedora Core 4 RPMs for Evolution 2.4:
        http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/dist/Fedora%20Core%204/

Fedora Core 5 RPMs for Evolution 2.6:
        http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/dist/Fedora%20Core%205/


Best regards,
  jules