On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 16:53 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:52 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > I'm wondering if earlier versions of Outlook connect to Exchange 2007.
They probably do. There might be limited functionality. But Evolution doesn't connect to the Exchange server using the MAPI protocol (which is a proprietary Microsoft protocol with no publicly available documentation that I'm aware of). Evolution's Exchange connector connects to the Outlook Web Access (OWA) interface. In other words, Evo looks to the Exchange server like a web browser client. Since OWA is 100% server side (from Exchange's point of view) there is absolutely no reason for Microsoft to have any "backward compatibility" between Exchange versions. But, since Evo has to parse the resulting HTML and figure out how to present it to you, and also understand what POST etc. operations are needed to send mail, calendaring, etc., any change to the OWA interface breaks Evolution Exchange rather badly. > We would all be happier if Outlook never existed. As I understand it, > the protocols for Exchange 2007 are available so it should be easier to > integrate. My point was that once all the 2003 servers are migrated to > 2007, Evolution won't be of any use for accessing Exchange servers. See above. As far as I know, Microsoft has still not published the MAPI protocols. It's just that people are making headway on reverse engineering them, just like the Samba folks did for SMB etc. Note that my understanding is that the MAPI protocols are NOT included in the recent settlement between Microsoft and the EU that Samba is taking advantage of. > None of this explains why in the latest version spam filtering (using > bogofilter) no longer works. With Exchange, or with POP/IMAP? I've never been able to get spam filtering working with Exchange. That's OK with me because my company does spam filtering at the Exchange server side. Spam filtering (using bogofilter) works great for me for my POP and IMAP accounts and has for a long time, with various versions of Ubuntu up to and including 7.10 (Evo 2.12) and it continues to work today with the latest SVN version of Evo (2.21). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list