Re: [Evolution] [ANNOUNCE] Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services) Alpha release

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 10:10 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> The other thing that I think might have confused things was that I
> initially put in my "real" email address and not the
> username exchange server add on the first screen.  As I said, it's all
> working now so it's difficult for me to categorically say what the
> issues are - or even file bugs against it.

Actually it's supposed to be your *real* email address.

So in my case I enter 'david woodhouse intel com". When I then hit the
'Fetch URL' button to do the autodiscovery, it follows the instructions
at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332364.aspx â which are
basically:
  - Construct an XML request
  - Try posting it to https://intel.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
  - If that fails, try posting it to https://autodiscover.intel.com/...

(Actually there's slightly more in the MS documentation that we don't
quite implement yet, but this ought to work, I think).

In fact, our sysadmins are stupid and refuse to fix the broken firewall
that drops packets to intel.com port 443 instead of rejecting them, and
which causes that first request to take ages to time out. So the EWS
code will do *both* of those requests in parallel and take the results
of the first successful one.

This autodiscover stuff is all a bit of a mess, and I suspect it's often
not set up correctly. If you find it misbehaving, it would be very
useful if you could try to work out what's wrong, and if there's
something in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332364.aspx that
we *should* be doing, that we're not.

-- 
dwmw2