On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Julien Kerihuel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sandra, > > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:20 +0100, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: >> i'm working for a company that uses exchange as a corporate >> mailserver. unfortunately the admin boneheads don't allow me to >> connect via imap. however, i managed to create connectivity via >> openexchange (libmapi). > > Sigh ... the project is named openchange not openexchange ;-)
Sorry about that :-) >> i can list all my folders, retrieve mails and >> so on. the ideal solution for me however would be to use imap. >> >> if i could have something like a local imap2mapi proxy this would >> solve my problem. the proxy would have to use libmapi as backend and >> translate imap commands to mapi (vice versa). >> >> has this been discussed before? > > Yes it has. > > Unfortunately we always/still come to the same answer: > - this tool doesn't currently exist in openchange trunk / > branches > - we truly lack developers and/or available time to handle this > particular development at the moment > > However, there has been efforts in the past (GSoC 2008) to integrate > OpenChange to fetchmail: > http://mknod.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/BRANCH_MAPI/ > > This may be a potential work-around or part of the solution to your > current problematic. Currently I've scripted something with 'openchangeclient' and procmail. Unfortunately that's not bi-directional. An IMAP proxy would be the solution to my problem. How about funding such a functionality? Would anyone here be willing to write something like that for a reasonable donation? I'd be willing to pay something for that. Sandra _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openchange.org/listinfo/devel
