evolution to exchange server

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:12 +1000, L wrote: 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola
> <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange
> >> mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange.
> >> The temporary solution is outlook on XP on  VirtualBox, but this is
> >> not preferable. Any help is great.
> >
> > I think you need to install the exchange plugin with
> > # yum install evolution-brutus
> > --
> 
> Yes, I have this installed, How to configure it?


I'm not sure how to configure evolution-brutus (I'd like to know,
because I'd like to try it), but there are a couple of alternatives to
consider as well.  

      * There is an OWA connector called evolution-exchange that works
        (more or less) with Exchange 2003 server, but not with Exchange
        2007.  It crashes frequently, but is at least functional most of
        the time with the somewhat limited features that are provided
        through OWA. 
      * There is a MAPI connector called evolution-mapi that is supposed
        to work with Exchange 2007.  Right now, it has a but that makes
        it close to unusable--it rescans the contents of the Inbox (and
        maybe other folders as well) every time you switch to them.
        There's a patch in Bugzilla, but there hasn't been a release
        pushed yet with the patch.

The Brutus connector should work with Exchange 2007, but there are some
configuration issues.  

The basic way to configure any of these is: install the plugin RPM,
restart evolution, create an account and select Brutus (or Exchange or
MAPI, resp.) as the server type.  You'll need some information about
server URLs, which your admins can supply.  In particular, the Brutus
setup asks for a port, but nobody I've asked seems to know what the
right port is.

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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