Re: [Evolution] Brutus : Was [Re: tips and tricks and questions and answers.]

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:33 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
>
> > "If you would like to connect to an Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 or 2007
> > server via MAPI (as would Outlook), get the Evolution Brutus Plugin at
> > http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/index.php. Evolution Brutus
> > supports complete access to your Exchange mail, calendar and tasks."
>
>
> I've wanted to try this functionality for the longest time but  the
> documentation states that one needs a Windows box to run the Brutus
> server. So.. Esentially what it's trying to do is something like a proxy
> for Evo?
>
> Evo Client (*NIX) --> Windows Box (Brutus) --> Exchange 2007
>
> Is This right?? 

This is absolutely right. There is no way, short of reverse engineering
the MAPI wire protocol, to connect to Exchange with MAPI unless you have
something like Brutus Server on the Windows side to handle to conversion
to/from native MAPI.

The good thing is naturally that you can serve any number of non-Windows
clients (only limited by the server hardware) by one Brutus server.

Best regards,
  jules