Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Re: Evolution-Connector W/ Exchange 2007]

[Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca>]

Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
> Mistakenly, I had hit reply - instead of Reply All.  Here is the
> conversation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> V. Varadhan
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com>
> To: Peter Van Lone <petervl gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution-Connector W/ Exchange 2007
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:12:43 +0530
>
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 07:18 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> > On 6/20/07, Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com> wrote:
> >
> > > That is good to hear. The upgrade to Exchange 2007 was inevitable for
> > > most companies and mine got chomped into it as well.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to the new release
> >
> > you call this good news, huh?
> >
> > The fact that many many months after release of the current product,
> > we find that there is 1 (one!) developer resource taked with "figuring
> > it out" and that after a couple weeks from now that 1(one!) develper
> > will (assuming other things don't get in the way) turn attention to it
> > again?
> >
> > Good god .. no wonder the connector is unuseable. I had high hopes for
> > a linux desktop, in part based on the expectation of having a fully
> > compatible groupware client for exchange.
> Revere engineered products/projects do lack 100% compatibility and
> release deadlines.  You can help us gain more momentum, by providing
> more insights on WebDAV / OWA interface in Exchange 2007, point us to KB
> articles or some other links that can help us proceed little faster.
> Evolution exchange connector (2.11.x) is still quite stable for Exchange
> 2003 and Exchange 2000 (if any) users.  Its getting better and better in
> every releases that we make.  So, I would say, keep your hopes high and
> lets help each other to achieve what we want.
>
> > We do not have that situation -- so some 70% of the networks out
> > there, are that much further out of range.
> These are not really out of range, still achievable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> V. Varadhan


It would be ideal if it could bypass OWA and just access the MAPI 
interface.  Maybe the Openchange MAPI libs will help to achieve this.

http://www.openchange.org/

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