Re: [Evolution] How to connect to exchange 2007 server

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 08:45 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 13:38 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > My *personal* opinion is that there seems to be so many problems and
> > restrictions with evo-mapi and so many ways that DavMail succeeds when
> > evo-mapi doesn't that the developers should look closely at
> > integrating DavMail into Evo - perhaps even with a view to it being
> > the main way of interacting with Exchange.
>
> Just as a point of order, I've tried DavMail and haven't had much more
> success with it in terms of the things I really need Exchange support
> for, which is primarily calendaring with the ability to schedule
> meetings, see free/busy information, and get meeting reminders than with
> the MAPI plugin.  Which is to say, basically none.
>
> In fact I haven't had much more success at all with davmail.  I only
> fooled with it for a half-hour or so, maybe if I made a committed run at
> it I could get it working better.

The Exchange system I have access to (can't really say "use" 'cos I
don't!) is a no-go with evo-mapi (it's a clustered multi-site setup
accessed through a proxy using SSL encrypted connections).  DavMail
happily connects to it and seems to reliably deal with calendars and
GAL. I don't use Exchange for anything serious (yet) so I can't comment
on anything beyond adding and displaying calendar entries.

P.