Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.26 Crashes when attemtping to Connect to Microsoft Exchange 2007 ...

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 02:12 -0400, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote:
> Thanks. Any idea when 2.28 or 2.30 would become stable?

Please don't top post.

Those releases ARE stable.  Any even-numbered release is considered a
stable release.  I suppose you mean, when the evolution-mapi backend for
Evolution will stabilize?

I have no idea; I'm not particularly optimistic at the moment.  It
doesn't seem to be much of a priority with anyone: I filed a number of
(what I consider) serious bugs a few months ago and most haven't been
updated.  The support for MAPI is non-functional enough (for me, anyway)
that I can't use it as my daily email client, and that really impacts
the amount of extra testing and bug filing (and bug fixing) I can do on
it... if those bugs have been addressed in the code, but not noted in
bugzilla, then I wouldn't know.

I encourage you to try it for yourself, though: it must work to some
extent for some people.


> From: Paul Smith [mailto:paul mad-scientist net] 

> The only way to connnect to an Exchange 2007 server with Evolution 2.26 is
> to configure MAPI on the Exchange server and use that--obviously you get no
> calendaring that way.

Argh.  Obviously I meant IMAP here, not MAPI.