On 10/3/05, Gil Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is unlikely a free MAPI connector will ever appear. It makes no > sense. If the user is already into spending money (Outlook is not > free), they will pay for the connector or the the exchange server. The > connectors (Bynari, Stalker and other) are cheaper then Exchange.
Then I think I have good news for you - there is at least one effort to write an open-source MAPI connector, the one I found from digging right now is at http://www.omesc.com/modules/main_module/ Also as far as I remember, Exchange 2k can run everything on top of WebDAV, which is supposed to make life yet easier for "foreign" clients to connect to it. But I never got around to actually deploy such a system so I'm just passing on what I think I heard on the net over a year ago. As for the sense of it - I think I do see the sense of it for the same reason Mozilla invested so much in transfering all the IE configurations to Firefox when the user uses it for the first time - backword compatibility: If you already have an Exchange server in the company and want to have Linux desktops then an open-source connector would come handy (that's a situation I encountered personally, my push to use Linux desktops in a just-formed startup fell to be even testted when the only connectors I found were commercial and the people there were too cheap to buy it, the Exchange server was 5.5 so a connector was the only way to talk to it). Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
