If it were not for the desire and in some cases the actual need for
Outlook, then reverse engineering would not be necessary. As an
alternative, if there were another client that would allow for
connection to Sharepoint calendars and would also allow for the use of
existing third party Outlook plugins, then we could use that.
If you do not need Outlook, then the web interface or Thunderbird (with
its plugins) is enough. Of course, working with Thunderbird and its
issues requires some reverse engineering as well - or at least patience.
On 06/26/2013 07:35 AM, Wayland Sothcott wrote:
Hello Raymond,
I sympathise with you but also with the SOGo team. There is an obvious
hole in what you can do with a Linux server. It's not necessarily that
it does not act as an Exchange server but that the functionality of an
email server beyond simply sending and receiving emails using Internet
standards is missing.
Microsoft protocols are usually very complicated, The SAMBA team have
done fantastically well to make it work like Microsoft NT Server. The
SOGo team are trying to do this for Exchange.
What should happen is a set of open standards should be written. These
would define how the client and the server talk to each other to
handle address book data and calendar data.
The server could then store it's data in whatever database suits it.
This might be the companies own database or one which came with the
service. The client could be an ipad or MS Outlook or Thunderbird.
Whatever, no matter since this standard would be added to the client
just like IMAP or POP is currently.
Trying to reverse engineer a Microsoft product is a bit sad. It's all
reflected glory. Open Office is like this. I could go on...
Regards,
Wayland.
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