I just read the website FAQ carefully at www.ximian.com. You MUST have OWA activated on the Exchange2000(not 5.5 or lower) server for the connector plugin to work. It is apparently built to run via WebDAV and talk to OWA. They did not reverse engineer the Exchange protocols at all, they integrated OWA into Evolution. Of course evolution provides a nicer interface than OWA alone....
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:11:04PM -0500, Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 02:46 PM 5/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >The jist of what I've read so far is that Ximian Connector is a client, > >costing $69 per seat license, that connects to Exchange. From > >www.ximian.com... > > Ximian Connector runs on the Exchange server, and is a server component. > Basically, you run the X Connector parallel to your Exchange service, and > then you connect to the X Connector with Evolution. The X Connector acts > like a translator between Evolution and Exchange. Nifty idea I suppose. I > wonder if they had to pay a license fee to Microsoft, or reverse engineer > the Exchange protocols? > > >As I understand, it also interfaces through OLA (Outlook Web Access), > >which must be running on the Exchange server for browser-based access. > >The term "server product" caught my attention. It is, though, closed > >source. > > Yup, closed source. > > Regards, Dustin > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > UNIX and Network Consultant > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net > In the beginning the Universe was created. > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 6D 31 C3 00 77 8C D1 C2 59 0A 01 E3 AF 81 94 63
