Re: [Evolution] connect Evolution 2.28 to MS exchange 2007 on Fedora 12

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:14 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 08:35 +0100, Jean-Claude Tergal wrote:
> > > 2009/11/19 L <yuanlux gmail com>:
> > > > > > One of main reasons for upgrade  F11 to F12 was to hope to connect
> > > > > > evolution 2.28 to Exchange 2007. After a smooth upgrade to F12. I
> > > > > > tried to connect evolution 2.28 with evo-mapi to M$ exchange server.
> > > > > > no luck at all, it crashed every time. The insttiute's exchange 
> > server
> > > > > > does not open imap port.   i you have sucessful connection, please
> > > > > > share with me
> > >
> > > I have a successful connection, but my compagny is using Exchange 2003
> > > ; and the evolution-exchange RPM of Mandriva 2010 says "Currently,
> > > only Exchange 2000 and 2003 are supported". So, it seems that Exchange
> > > 2007 is not supported at all ; I think you have to stay with
> > > VirtualBox, or use the bloody Outlook Web Access in Firefox.
> > >
> > > Nicolas
> > > Strasbourg (France)
> >
> > I have a successful connection with Exchange 2007. Evo-mapi crashes
> > immediately in release 2.28.0, you need 2.28.1 where the fixes are. I'm
> > not familiar with F12 or indeed anything about Fedora, but you may need
> > to talk to the maintainer of gnome/evolution/evo-mapi for your distro.
> You are lucky.  I have 2.28.1, but evolution crashes as soon as I try to 
> authenticate.  Thunderbird works fine with DAVMail, but Lightning as the 
> calendar provider is quite flaky.  Evolution's caldav won't connect to 
> davmail at all.  Nothing seems to connect to the GAL.
>
> So, I run Tbird/DavMail for mail and installed a stripped down version 
> of XP in virtual box, stripped it down some more, installed Outlook, set 
> the registry so that shell=outlook.exe, and am using it as a 
> calendar/addressbook appliance.  I am patiently hoping that 
> evolution-mapi will work as well as evolution-exchange some day and I 
> can go back to using a native Linux solution.
>
> Evolution was the reason I ran gnome on my work machine. 
>
> <sigh>
I don't think it has anything to do with luck, I simply looked for a
version that works and compiled it. Various distros patch things up
according to my needs, mine doesn't so less possibility of introduced
bugs.

If you're okay with compiling from source, get the git of evo-mapi from
the 2.28.0 label and apply the next 4 patches in git, that's the ones
that fix crashing for me.