evolution to exchange server

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Sun Sep 27 16:37:58 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:44 +1000, L wrote:

> MAPI seems get evolution connected to exchange server, but crashed
> frequently. I'd like try Brutus. How to configure Brutus?
> 
> In Evolution Account Editor, there is a session 'Brutus Settings', it asks for
> 
> Exchange email address
> Window Domian
> Brutus Server
> Brutus Server port
> 
> Can someone explain what are these, in particular the brutus server and port?
> 

What I've picked up from the discussion is this:  You need to run (or
have your Exchange admin run) a Brutus server on a Windows box.  The
Brutus server connects to Exchange Server via the MAPI interface.  You
set up Evolution to connect to the Brutus server, and you interact with
Exchange via the Brutus middleman.

This would be all well and good, except that recently, nobody seems to
be able to locate the Brutus developers or find a current download for
the server.  My guess is that the server is not open source, as the devs
would have had to sign an NDA with Microsoft to get up-to-date specs for
Exchange MAPI.  Whether it's inexpensive enough to run one's own server
is another question we can't answer without access to the developers.

Does that about sum it up, O more knowledgeable ones?
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs




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