Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Smith
I've had to give up on DavMail. It seemed OK at the start, but there are far too many problems. I can't get the IMAP interface through DavMail working properly at all. I'm constantly getting errors from DavMail with things like "B4 BAD unable to handle request: Unable to update message proper

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-03 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > First, my Exchange server has IMAP support enabled. Does anyone know > what the advantage (if any) is to using the DavMail IMAP interface vs. > the native Exchange server IMAP interface? I use the direct IMAP. It is faster than the DavMail

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 13:27 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:13 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > I tried DavMail last fall for about 30m and couldn't get it working > > right so I gave up--too quickly I admit. Maybe I'll give it another > > go. > > The trick is the url for your ma

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-02 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:13 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Still wishing someone would really concentrate on getting the > evolution-mapi backend working in a solid, reliable way... Hi, evolution-mapi depends on openchange and samba4 and with recent changes on openchange side and evolution-ma

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-02 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:45 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > My question is whether there are plans for evolution to support 2010 > without resort to DavMail or another 3rd party solution? Hi, yes, there are. You may try latest openchange svn trunk (revision 1889 as of now), and evolution-mapi

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
It isnt a standard 2003 exchange - there are some local mods to the OWA signon that outlook and davmail can handle, but evolution cant, even though they seem trivial. Mind you, it took the latest subversion version of davmail to work. BillK On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:45 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-01 Thread Art Alexion
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:13 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > I tried DavMail last fall for about 30m and couldn't get it working > right so I gave up--too quickly I admit. Maybe I'll give it another > go. The trick is the url for your mailbox, calendar, etc. > > FWIW, I still use lookOut! 2003, not

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:49 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > DavMail works well with 2007 & evolution if you don't want to use > lookout. Lookout 2007 is admittedly bloated, but seems to have a > superior interface to any prior version. I run it for group > calendaring under VirtualBox. I tried DavMa

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-01 Thread Art Alexion
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 23:02 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Then my company switched to Exchange 2007 and I've had to use lookOut! > inside Crossover Linux ever since :-/. > > DavMail works well with 2007 & evolution if you don't want to use lookout. Lookout 2007 is admittedly bloated, but seems to

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-01 Thread Art Alexion
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 22:59 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 06:45 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > IMAP is for reading mail, SMTP is for sending (most likely). I've > not > > heard of IMAP being useable for sending email. > > Yes, you're right. What I meant was that my exchange server

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-06-01 Thread Art Alexion
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 20:26 -0400, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Ive never been able to get evolution mapi or evolution exchange > working > to exchange 2003! - evo ver 2.26, I have just upgraded to gnome 2.28 > and > will retry it again soon, but dont hold out much hope. I found the evolution-exc

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Ive never been able to get evolution mapi or evolution exchange > working to exchange 2003! - evo ver 2.26, I have just upgraded to > gnome 2.28 and will retry it again soon, but dont hold out much hope. As of Gnome 2.22 and later I had

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 06:45 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > IMAP is for reading mail, SMTP is for sending (most likely). I've not > heard of IMAP being useable for sending email. Yes, you're right. What I meant was that my exchange server allows sending mail as well, using normal SMTP, not requiring MA

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:33 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:09 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > > They are running Exchange 2007. I am currently using IMAP and it works > > but I have to send email through my ISP. > > I'm not sure why that would be: is it because your server admins

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:33 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:09 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > > They are running Exchange 2007. I am currently using IMAP and it works > > but I have to send email through my ISP. > > I'm not sure why that would be: is it because your server admins

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 18:19 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > I tried all of the servers I could think of and was never able to > authenticate using the evolution-mapi backend... What version of Evolution are you using? There were some issues with some older, broken versions that required you to use th

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Jerry LeVan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:33 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:09 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > > They are running Exchange 2007. I am currently using IMAP and it works > > but I have to send email through my ISP. > > I'm not sure why that would be: is it because your server admins

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:09 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > They are running Exchange 2007. I am currently using IMAP and it works > but I have to send email through my ISP. I'm not sure why that would be: is it because your server admins don't allow sending mail via IMAP? I can send mail via IMAP to

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Jerry LeVan
On May 30, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: >> I have an Exchange Account at the University where I retired from. >> >> There is a owa web interface and I can specify my username and >> password on the 'initial page' of owa and log i

Re: [Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:43 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > I have an Exchange Account at the University where I retired from. > > There is a owa web interface and I can specify my username and > password on the 'initial page' of owa and log into my account. > What sort of questions should I ask the h

[Evolution] Trying to create Evolution-Exchange Account...

2010-05-30 Thread Jerry LeVan
Hi, I have an Exchange Account at the University where I retired from. There is a owa web interface and I can specify my username and password on the 'initial page' of owa and log into my account. I have downloaded the evolution-exchange rpm ( Fedora 13) and when I try to create an exchange acco