On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:31 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 00:47 +0530, Suman Manjunath wrote: > > to be able to use the MAPI plugin, your Exchange mailbox should be > > enabled for MAPI. this is a setting on the server. it is a common > > issue to not have it enabled. > > Curious. Does that mean that Outlook can talk to an Exchange mailbox > WITHOUT having it enabled for MAPI? I would like to know more about > this. One putative advantage of using MAPI, to me, would be that the > corporate IT department wouldn't even know you're using Evolution. They > wouldn't have to make ANY changes specifically for Evo users, not even > to enable OWA (if they didn't have it enabled already). > > So, if there are still Exchange mods that have to be made beyond what's > needed for Outlook users we should get in front of that I think. > > > Cheers! >
Agreed. I thought MAPI is the protocol Outlook uses to communicate with Exchange. If this is not the case and there is some other uber-secret special protocol instead, it would behoove us to figure that one out. I don't expect my Exchange administrator to make any special accommodations for me just because I use a different client than Outlook. Thanks, Per _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
