In some email I received from Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 24 Apr 
2003
05:13:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

> Isn't the 'API' in 'MAPI' actually for once an apt description of this
> Microsoft technology? That is, MAPI is a set of library function calls
> rather than a protocol... correct me if I'm wrong, however!

it's relevant with MSRPC. but yes you're right.
 
> Getting into MSRPC might be rather difficult, and I would hope to avoid
> such a beast. If that really is the way, though, there is skeleton code
> in both Samba and Samba-TNG that can be leveraged to provide a framework,
> then simply hang support for the appropriate MSRPC calls off of it.

Some more reverse engineering has to be done. Shame that MSRPC isnt a
generic dce/rpc. Also I think MSRPC should be the main concern. 
On other hand, dbmail can be RAD'd to a state higher than MS Exchange. But the
compatibility with a different email clients is a different issue(excluding 
pop3/imap),
for Outlook it's easy to write an addin to draw the nice callendar(ie comm 
module) and
store all the data(let say callender data, notes so so..) into a database.

Have you seen HP OpenMail(Now Samsung Contact)?

cheers

> > In some email I received from Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 23 Apr
> > 2003 13:51:52 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
> >
> > > I believe that there are two ways to get into the address book. Exchange
> > > 5.5 has a 'GAL', the Global Address List with a proprietary
> > > protocol, but with an optional LDAP access mode. In Exchange 2000, I
> > > believe that the LDAP access is default via Active Directory.
> > > As eluded to by a post a few (months?) ago, Exchange exports all of its
> > > data via IMAP. If this is the case, we should see if there's a particular
> > > message format that contains addresses that we can emulate.
> >
> > What about MAPI and MSRPC in general?
> >
> > > If the only route in LDAP, then it's a more complex matter of getting
> > > together a schema that does what Outlook expects. The Samba HEAD branch
> > > (version 3 alpha) has a lot of Active Directory schemas for OpenLDAP. I do
> > > doubt that they have the Exchange schema changes, though... I think
> > > they're published in an MSDN document.
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> > -lk
> >
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