Peter Tribble wrote: > What are the best options (and possible future plans) for connecting to > Exchange 2007? > > Up until a week ago we were using an older version of exchange, and the > evolution in Solaris 10 worked fine. (The newer evolution in SXCE apparently > worked better for clander integration, but I didn't get on with it as a pure > mail client so well.) > > Now we've been "upgraded" and evolution won't talk to it. There doesn't > seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm to enable anything like IMAP > just so the one person in the company who doesn't have outlook can > get on with his work and I'm currently stuck with Outlook Web Access :-( > > Am I looking at waiting for an updated evolution client (2.22, maybe)? > Or are there other alternatives for accessing exchange 2007? > > Currently, there may be experimental patches for evolution outside the JDS tree that may work, but they may require modification to work with the OpenSolaris sources. In the coming 5 years, there will be a decline in the Windows marketshare under 90%, and until then understandably, companies will continue to be unwilling to cater to the needs of employees who chose to use Linux, OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X clients. I cannot give you a direct answer if it will work or not, some configurations, especially more secure domain integrated setups will be near impossible to plug in to. Various projects, such as Winchester (AD integration), native CIFS project, and Samba 4 may result in useful ways to interact with Windows systems not currently available for general consumption through cross polination, resulting in better interoperability with general domain tasks. Don't hold your breath, put pressure on them if you can, otherwise use xVM and Windows XP (Or Vista) and use Exchange itself, it works decently. Of course your processor needs HVM support, so if you're not on Core 2 or Opteron, you're really out of luck for doing it from within OpenSolaris.
James
