Re: [gentoo-user] Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

Re: [gentoo-user] Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

[Jules Colding]

Hi Alan,

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:25 +0200, Alan Mckinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Evolution has just crashed and ticked me off once too often, so now this
> *cough* MTA *cough* has just discovered the big wide world outside my
> window...

What crashed was probably the evolution-exchange plugin, not Evolution
as such. 

I think you should try the alternative Exchange plugin, evolution-brutus
(e-b). e-b will connect you to Exchange 5.5 and never and are using
MAPI, not WebDAV which are used by OWA and evolution-exchange.

Read the initial announcement to the evolution-hackers list for the
technical details or go to omesc.com for the downloads:

Initial announcement on evo list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2005-September/msg00048.html


Downloads::
   http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/index.php


Screenshots:
   http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/screenshots/


HTH,
  jules



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Re: [gentoo-user] Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

[Alan McKinnon]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:05 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
> What crashed was probably the evolution-exchange plugin, not Evolution
> as such. 
> 
> I think you should try the alternative Exchange plugin,
> evolution-brutus
> (e-b). e-b will connect you to Exchange 5.5 and never and are using
> MAPI, not WebDAV which are used by OWA and evolution-exchange.

Hi Jules,

Thanks for these links, e-b looks worth investigating. 

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

[Jules Colding]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:05 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
> > What crashed was probably the evolution-exchange plugin, not Evolution
> > as such. 
> > 
> > I think you should try the alternative Exchange plugin,
> > evolution-brutus
> > (e-b). e-b will connect you to Exchange 5.5 and never and are using
> > MAPI, not WebDAV which are used by OWA and evolution-exchange.
> 
> Hi Jules,
> 
> Thanks for these links, e-b looks worth investigating. 

No problem. Just yell if there is anything I can do to help.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

[Jim Ramsay]

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Alan Mckinnon wrote:
> I'd like to ask for some user feedback on how well other MTAs manage
> to talk to Exchange. It's the calendar function I'd like to have -
> other people at work like to send me invites. I can always pop my
> mail from exchange, and I can get imap if I ask the admin nicely so
> the mail stuff is not important. The exchange web front end is
> enabled so I always have the browser as a fall back, but I'd really
> like everything in the MTA if possible.

Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible
with Exchange calendar events.  I've never tried it, though. 

'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar'

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

[Alan Mckinnon]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:44 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> Alan Mckinnon wrote:
> > I'd like to ask for some user feedback on how well other MTAs manage
> > to talk to Exchange. It's the calendar function I'd like to have -
> > other people at work like to send me invites. I can always pop my
> > mail from exchange, and I can get imap if I ask the admin nicely so
> > the mail stuff is not important. The exchange web front end is
> > enabled so I always have the browser as a fall back, but I'd really
> > like everything in the MTA if possible.
> 
> Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible
> with Exchange calendar events.  I've never tried it, though. 
> 
> 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar'

Funny you should mention that one, I emerged it earlier today to see if
I liked it. But I got this:

gentoo portage # emerge -av sylpheed-claws-vcalendar

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] mail-client/sylpheed-claws-vcalendar-1.29  0 kB 

vcal_manager.c: In function `vcal_manager_send':
vcal_manager.c:1124: error: too few arguments to function 
...[snip]...
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sylpheed-claws-vcalendar-1.29/work/sylpheed-claws-extra-plugins-2.0.0/vcalendar-1.29/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/sylpheed-claws-vcalendar-1.29/work/sylpheed-claws-extra-plugins-2.0.0/vcalendar-1.29'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: mail-client/sylpheed-claws-vcalendar-1.29 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1543:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 938:   Called src_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 607:   Called die

!!! emake failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.

##########
<sigh>, back to the drawing board. Alternatively, wait for the Exchange
admin to install brutus and give e-b a try :-)

alan


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)

[A. Khattri]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Jim Ramsay wrote:

> Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible
> with Exchange calendar events.  I've never tried it, though.
>
> 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar'


Maybe you can persuade them to use this drop-in replacement for Exchange:
http://www.postpath.com/

;-)


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