[6326] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Evolution and Exchange [Re: Meeting Notes: Athena Release Team, Tuesday 21 April 1:30 in W91-250]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Apr 21 16:59:28 2009
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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> Okay, good to hear this was investigated (Zephyr made it sound like it
> wasn’t).
It was investigated prior to the E-mail meeting (apparently the
minutes of that haven't been sent around, that should probably be fixed)
>> There is a MAPI plugin in development, but it is not yet ready and
>> will
>> also not work in our infrastructure, according to the Exchange
>> admins.
>
> That’s unfortunate. Does exchange.mit.edu not support MAPI? Does
> that
> mean you can’t access it with MS Outlook, either? Are we likely to be
> able to get that changed?
Well, I thought MAPI would be available, since Outlook/Entourage use
it, but I don't recall the details of what was said at the meeting,
and the notes suggest that MAPI with Evolution won't work. It's worth
testing again.
> If we can get MAPI, this plugin is in Jaunty:
>
> Package: evolution-mapi
> Version: 0.26.0.1-0ubuntu2
> Description: Evolution extension for MS Exchange 2007 servers
> A provider for Evolution that can connect to Exchange 2007 servers and
> also to Exchange 2003, 2000 and 5.5.
> Homepage: http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider
This failed to work for me when I built it from source in January (on
RHEL 5). Specifically, it built, but would not connect, and the
errors were not useful. I didn't have time to do additional
debugging. If it's in Jaunty, then it must work for someone. Can
someone with a Jaunty machine test it this week? (everyone should have
an Exchange account, but you need to have changed your password
"recently" in order to be able to log in to Exchange, so you should
verify that OWA works before testing Evolution/MAPI). Also, I think
you have to connect to $foo.exchange.mit.edu, but I don't remember
what $foo is.
-Jon
