Sorry, I just looked at the date of the email I responded on and realized it was an old thread.
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:44 +0000, Shawn Badger wrote: > Just help support your claim of needing the Exchange connector. I could > not run Linux on my desktop without it. If I can't do e-mail in Linux > (with Exchange) then I have to downgrade back to Windows. > > > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 07:23 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: > > On 6/20/07, Veerapuram Varadhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > It would be ideal if it could bypass OWA and just access the MAPI > > > > interface. Maybe the Openchange MAPI libs will help to achieve this. > > > > > > > > http://www.openchange.org/ > > > > > > > That is definitely the future direction of Evolution-exchange. We will > > > be evaluating this in couple of weeks and update go-evolution.org with > > > the same. > > > > > > V. Varadhan > > > > > > so using the open-exchange lib is now the direction of the eds > > project? Is this a new direction (ie you just heard about it, and > > think it's a good idea)? Or, was it a strategic decision taken by the > > entire team some time ago, and just in the next couple weeks your time > > has cleared to get started on it? > > > > Frankly I don't see much commitment here to get this done ... why is > > that? I am not criticising you in this Varadhan ... but rather > > wondering out loud why for so long this project has had such little > > commitment of resources? > > > > Perhaps not enough people within Novell/Gnome really "get" just how > > badly the evo exchange connection is required in order to get traction > > with a linux desktop? > > > > At any rate -- to me, it would be very good if, when installing evo, > > if I could select from amongst the various "connector" styles. I would > > like to see as menu options "traditional evo connector" and brutus > > connector (yes, which will assume the process is installed out there > > somewhere). > > > > Hopefully this open exchange lib will provide so traction, quickly too > > .... it is ridiculous that I have to have a windows vm and Outlook in > > order to view a shared calendar or function even reasonably well with > > exchange. > > > > I've said it before, and can only re-enforce the message ... right now > > it is a deal breaker for wider corp adoption of linux desktop. Please > > get some resources on it and make it a PRIORITY. > > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > Evolution-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
