On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:48 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:55 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > I tracked the issue and got a confirmation on irc that the port 135
> > needs to be opened on corporate firewall in order for mapi-provider to
> > work. I thought that ports 80 and 443 were enough because older
> > evolution-exchange provider worked like that, and I saw no mention of
> > this on official FAQ.
> 

If you have access to the server then there are several guides online on
how to configure exchange / outlook under a firewall. 

Would be nice if this could be tested with the provider :)

Thanks a lot ! 

> The Evolution Exchange connector uses the Exchange Open Web Access (OWA)
> interface, which is essentially the Exchange webmail interface, to
> contact Exchange.  Thus, to use the connector you need to have the Web
> ports open (80 and 443, for HTTP and HTTPS respectively).
> 
> However, the new mapi-provider backend talks to the server using
> Microsoft MAPI protocol, which is the same protocol that Outlook uses to
> talk to Exchange.  This protocol uses different ports, of course, since
> it's a different protocol.



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