Re: [openchange][devel] Request for guidance with using OpenChange

[Paul Borman]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for the kind response.  I will look into the exchange2mbox  
utility as it sounds like it does the "hard" half.  Anything I am able  
to come up with I will be glad to contribute back to your group.  Like  
too many of us, I am not allowed to make getting mail to work impact  
my job (as if being forced to switch to Windows and use Outlook  
wouldn't!) but I do have a certain level of personal interest in  
finding the alternative :-)

One other question, do you know if anyone has built libmapi on MacOS  
X.  I tried a few times but it quickly got messy with the dependencies  
on Samba 4, etc.  At this moment I am using Ubuntu 8.10 for this work  
because openchange "just works" there.  Who ever made those packages  
available and into Ubuntu, thank you thank you thank you!

        -Paul

On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Brad Hards wrote:

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 11:24:06 am Paul Borman wrote:
Hello,
Hi Paul,

First, thank you for taking on the project of OpenChange.  It is  
great
to see these tasks tackled.
Nice to be appreciated :-)

My company was recently acquired by a corporation which does not
support any standard mail protocols for e-mail access and thus we  
must
use MAPI enabled mail clients.  Since many of us would prefer to stay
with our existing mail clients I am interested in an MAPI gateway.
Two possibilities come to mind:

        1) A simple proxy which supports incomming Secure IMAP connections
and talks out MAPI out the back end.

        2) A simply utility which reads mail using MAPI and forwards that
mail to a different mail account via the SMTP protocol.
We don't yet have such proxies. Contributions would of course be much
appreciated.

One thing that might be useful is a command line utility  
"exchange2mbox" which
can sync a local mbox to a single user's exchange mailbox. It comes  
with
openchange.

The only other suggestion I can make is that recent versions of  
evolution ship
with Exchange support (using OpenChange libmapi library). If you are a
current user of Evolution, then that might be a possibility.

HTH

Brad




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