Jules and Paul, I see I have much to learn, thank you for replies and helping to educate me. :)
Barb -----Original Message----- From: Jules Colding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Wood, Barbara (ITIO-ISSO); Jacob Johnny; evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution / Exchange 2007 On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 08:56 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:00 +0000, Wood, Barbara (ITIO-ISSO) wrote: > > What do you mean by e-b? > > Hi Barbara; I'm sure Jules will give you more info, I can always provide more info but your description of the several Exchange connecting methods are right on ;-) -- jules > but I thought I'd provide some background just to get your feet on > solid ground. > > Exchange supports two models of access: MAPI, which is a proprietary > Microsoft protocol. This is what Outlook etc. use to connect to > Exchange. And, OWA or the HTTP interface: this is what the Microsoft > web access uses. > > Because the latter is HTTP, an open protocol, initial versions of > Exchange connectors for Evolution used this method; to the Exchange > server, Evolution looks like a web access client. The problem here is > that Microsoft often changes the web interface from version to > version, which is a support hassle for Evo. Also problematic is that > the web access can be clunky for some situations. > > The "e-b" that Jules mentions is Evolution Brutus. Brutus is a > project to provide a CORBA (which is a standard protocol) interface to > the proprietary MAPI protocol, so that any tool that can do CORBA can > interact with MAPI servers like Exchange. Evolution Brutus is a > plugin for Evolution that lets it talk to Brutus (note this is not > distributed with Evo, but is available separately). > > As of today, E-B works BUT the trick is this: you need to install the > Brutus part on a Windows machine. The Brutus project is not trying to > reverse-engineer the MAPI protocol; instead they run their translation > software on a Windows machine and use Microsoft's MAPI DLL's directly. > Then the E-B plugin contacts the Brutus software running on the > Windows machine. So, if you're happy to set up Brutus on one of your > Windows machines (it does NOT have to be the Exchange server) then > your Evolution users can use the E-B plugin with Evolution. You can > find out more here: http://www.42tools.com/ > > The Evolution MAPI connector that Srini mentions is an Evolution > plugin that can actually talk directly to MAPI: there's a project > Openchange ( http://www.openchange.org/ ) that is reverse-engineering > the MAPI protocol and the Evolution team is working on a plugin that > uses this to talk to Exchange servers directly. This is the project > Srini was referring to. It's still in early days right now. > > So, your choices are to use E-B right now, installing the Brutus > software on a Windows system, or wait until the Evo MAPI connector is > finished (or at least further along). > > HTH! > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: > http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us > "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
