Re: [Evolution] evolution and access to MS Exchange 5.5

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 14:00 +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
>  Is there a way to access MS Exchange 5.5 mail server from Fedora 15?
>
> I saw that for previous versions of Evolution there is a plugin called
> evolution-brutus plugin - for accessing exchange 5.5 server from
> evolution,  but from what I found, this plugin is not available for fedora 15.
You need evolution-exchange.

The various old & new Exchange plugins are, as far as I understand it:

evolution-exchange  :  old interface, uses http access to OWA and is v.
version dependent.  Suitable for Exchange 5.5 (2003) and earlier

evolution-mapi : uses MAPI interface (based on samba 4) and suitable for
Exchange 2007 & 2010.  But has restrictions on the Exchange setup
supported

evolution-brutus : now deprecated - needs a brutus server running on a
Windows box to access Exchange

evolution-ews : New & in alpha/beta stage - uses Exchange Web Services
to access the server - the same as the iOS & OSX client. (And, I think
Outlook).

P.