Evolution MAPI Provider preview builds
Back from holidays.
Therez a lot of interest in Evolution’s MS Exchange 2007 connectivity. Worked on some preview builds for evolution-mapi-provider. This will be a standalone plugin RPM. These are temporary and will be discontinued once the code is merged in trunk.
Builds are available at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jjohnny:/evolution-exchange-mapi-provider/
evolution-mapi-provider is a work in-progress and lot of basic features are not available and *highly unstable*. It is expected to get into trunk for the next release ( Evolution 2.24 ).
Update (Jan 31 18:00) : Julien will be talking about OpenChange’s libmapi in SolutionsLinux 2008. Evolution plugin is in there too!
Update (Jan 21 18:15) : Fedora 8 builds are available now
Links : Announce Mail | Wiki Page |
In the NEWS : Srini on Planet GNOME | Jelmer’s Blog
Question:
Doesn’t Exchange 2007 *not* have MAPI by default for clients? See here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/stephen_griffin/archive/2007/03/19/mapi-and-exchange-2007.aspx
Comment by Ransak — February 8, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Johnny,
thanks for the great work.
I had tried the 20080118 RPM build and it works with some minor issues. But after I upgraded it to 20080212 RPM build, I got following error “undefined symbol:CAMEL_MAPI_FOLDER_LOCK”, I guess the latest evolution-mapi-provider RPM build is not compatible with non-latest libmapi.
Anyway, very exciting that it works, I’m hoping to get a stable version as soon as possible.
thanks again.
Comment by Wei — February 13, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
@ wei : Fixed in 20080212.1 , Thanks
Comment by Johnny — February 14, 2008 @ 8:04 am
Thanks for your work. Will this work with evolution 2.22? Do you know of anyone making a Debian/Ubuntu package — me and a few thousand folks over there are desperately in need of this!
Comment by Dave — April 26, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
Dave, Yes even i would love to have builds for debian. But i’m not familair with debs. I would be happy to give access to the repository if somebody is willing to fixup the debian build.
Comment by Johnny — April 28, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
I’m about to take a crack at building debs for i386 and AMD64. I’ll make sure to post back here with the final product, assuming I get things working how I want.
Comment by Dale — May 5, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
Awesome .. Pl let me know if u need any assistance.
Comment by Johnny — May 6, 2008 @ 3:20 am
Thanks for this great work.
But I have a question…
I have installed the three rpm files (samba, libmapi and exchange connector), but when evolution start with the configuration wizard, mapi isn’t available in the server type menu, and how to configurate it.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards
Ps: I work with Fedora 8.
Comment by Olivier — May 14, 2008 @ 2:49 pm