Hello
everybody,
As I never did
before, I think it's time for my hello mail.
I've been reading
this list for a few weeks, trying in parallel to study Kervin's work ,
Microsoft mapi
documentation, outlook object model and inside
mapi.
I'm working as a developper for Right
Vision, a software company in France that sells server appliances.
Server appliances are all in one servers ( read mail, web, file, print,
vpn, calendar and many other ... )
managed through a web interface, built on a
mix of both proprietary and free software.
Sorry if it is not clear, I find it hard to
explain it in french already .
My company wants me to improve the publication of the
collaborative functions ( basically contacts, and agendas ) of our servers
into outlook.
I think a mapi store
provider is what we need ( in opposition to an addin and a synchronization
approach ) so that we can add
shared
contacts/calendars folder into outlook.
I'm not sure I fully understand the pros and the cons for us
to add a store provider versus replacing all ms store's providers,
and I know almost nothing about transport provider - tried to focus on
store
providers and mapi things.
My current learning
process is reading inside mapi, browsing messages and folders and so on with
outlook spy,
trying to
understand how outlook ( and or mapi ) behaves
( where does this form come
from ? do we need to provide a form manager ? should named properties be listed
in getprops ... )
running sample code
under the debugger trying to figure out how things should work.
I don't know how I
can contribute to the project ; but I'll be happy to do so when
I feel more comfortable with the technology
( and if my company
decides to take the 'mapi provider way' ), at least sharing
experience.
I agree with Jason
that sharing knowledge and experience is certainly a timesaver for
everyone.
Beside of that I
have an administrative question to the project owner.
I noticed that posts
sent to the list are seen as sent by the originator of the message, and not the
otlkcon-devel list.
It's annoying
because hitting outlook's 'reply' option makes the reply addressed only to
the originator of the message and not the list.
My feeling is that
parts of the discussion is not in the list is not because of it...
Can sourceforge's ml tools be configured to have such a behavior as
all message sent through the list are seen as 'from the list'
?
Cheers
Philippe
Torrelli
