Re: [Evolution] evolution-mapi broken in Ubuntu Karmic

[Thomas Novin <thomas_ml xyz pp se>]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 11:02 -0500, steve carl wrote:
> 2.28 made it there a couple days later, although it is not working for
> me yet:
>
> here are the packages I have as of today (October 1st: Beta due
> today!)
>
> ii  evolution-mapi                       0.28.0-0ubuntu1
> Evolution extension for MS Exchange 2007 ser
> ii  libexchangemapi1.0-0                 0.28.0-0ubuntu1
> Client library for accessing MAPI servers
> ii  libmapi0                             1:0.8.2+svn1423-1ubuntu1
> Client library for the MAPI protocol
>
> And here are the bugs I have filed on the MAPI related failures /
> crashes
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438247
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436751
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434907
>
> At the end of it all, while I am not experienced at reading the
> tracebacks and dump info, it appears to me to all be one basic bug
> where Evolution, via MAPI, is trying to read from a non-readable
> Virtual Memory Area (VMA). 
>
> That seems a bit odd to me, as I would not have thought Evolution
> would be directly involved in memory management, so I am guessing
> something in MAPI is not compiled against the correct version of
> something. Maybe a security permission is not there? Who knows...
>
> Bugs are marked as medium right now, but they are keeping me from
> being able to use MAPI against Exchange 2007 at all. 

Same for me. I am able to start Evolution (fresh install in VirtualBox),
configure my Exchange-account and also download all headers. As soon as
I try to download a message Evolution crashes though.

Rgds