Re: [Evolution] Evolution + MAPI = too much hassle

[Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <marc nieper-wisskirchen de>]

Hi!

> ïI would be very happy if somebody is willing to take up resposibility
> for building it for Ubuntu / Debian in openSUSE Build service (I'm
> familiar with Build Service) or anyother repositories. :)

Today, I have installed the openSUSE_Factory rpms on my Ubuntu 8.04
system.

It was quite a hassle:

1) The rpms cannot be processed by rpm 4.4.2.1, thus I had to install
rpm 5.1 to make the converter alien happy.

2) The plugin wants libgnutls.so.26, so I had to install two debs from
Debian/unstable polluting my system.

Afterwards, I could begin to create an account using the MAPI plugin.
Unfortunately, when I tried to authenticate in the creation wizard,
Evolution crashed.

This was the output on the console:

----
marc archimedes:~$ evolution
Loading Exchange MAPI Plugin

listener is constructed 
BBDB spinning up...
camel-mapi-store.c(166):camel_mapi_store_get_type:Reached 
Create profile with nieper XXXXXXXX (****) uni-mainz
exchange-01.zdv.uni-mainz.de
profpath /home/marc/.evolution/mapi-profiles.ldb
Segmentation fault
----

I guess it is better to compile the plugin from source. For this, it
would be nice to know how the rpms for SUSE are being built and, even
more important, from which repositories of source files.

Best,

Marc