On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 23:49 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > >Something that can be made to work with the Exchange instead of going > >through the Outlook Web Access which basically makes working with > >Exchange a total PITA. This is a productivity killer. > > > > > > I know nothing about Exchange, but I was under the impression that the only > way a non-Windows client can get access to Exchange was via OWA. There > is nothing that Evo can do about that - it's because MS doesn't publish the > interface "standard". After all, that was why Brutus was created - but > then > people grouch that it has to run on a windows box!
The MS interface is MAPI (Mail API), which is a proprietary MS protocol. Third party clients can apparently use it by paying MS a licence fee. This is of course useless for free software projects. However people have been trying to reverse-engineer MAPI wire protocol, with varying degrees of success (it appears to be intentionally obfuscated). Thus for example the "standard" (non-Brutus) Exchange plugin for Evo is independant of MS. There is also a non-Evo project called Openchange which claims to be making progress, see http://www.openchange.org. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
