Re: [otlkcon-devel] may we help each other?

[Charles N Wyble]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah. I don't think its you. It takes me several passes as well. I think everyone has to do at least 2 passes and a rain dance while having there toes pinched and there arms twisted or something like that to understand the ms docs :) Hello Charles and and Luca, Hello Jason. I'd like to echo Charles' sentiment. I'd also add that some of the documentation seems to be outright misleading if not technically incorrect. I agree. One begins to wonder if that is intentional. Then, there's all of the undocumented MAPI properties that Outlook *requires*, plus the "optional" MAPI stuff that Outlook *requires*, etc. Yes its quite frustrating and annoying. One key issue is the difference between writing a general MAPI service provider versus writing a MAPI service provider for use by Outlook... Huge difference. All of the publicly available documentation is for general MAPI service providers, not Outlook MAPI service providers. InsideMAPI is a good start, but extremely outdated. Yes I agree. And it seems to be quite difficult to get ahold of InsideMAPI in the first place. And even once that is obtained it seems to not be the gold mine that its made out to be. I'll add that I've been a subscriber of this list for a long time, but am finally posting after seeing a nice bit of activity lately.     Indeed. I am elated at all this activity. Everything is finally starting to come together in the exchange/outlook replacement world. I about fell out of my chair when the activity started on the list. Then some other stuff happened in other areas and I came across several good resources and had people email me with some pointers/tips. I'm the lead developer of the the MAPI toolkit at SourceXtreme, Inc.     Oh yes I believe we spoke on the phone some time ago. I discussed some things with you and some possible contract work on openchange/otlkcon development. We also have the start of a MAPI message store and MAPI transport provider built using our MAPI toolkit. Cool!! Having fun I see and not telling the rest of us. Tut tut I think I will have to tell your mommy that your not sharing. :) We haven't been working on it as fervently the last few months, Shame on you! :) but would happily join efforts with this group.     Neat. The less work that is duplicated and the more minds that are on the problem the better. Open source development in action. We have no problems with GPL, LGPL, or dual-licensing.     Even better. This is great news. Any idea how soon the code can be released? (Can you tell I am itching to get some movement here? :) ) We do prefer C++ over straight C, but are willing to work with those who prefer straight C.     Perhaps a comprimise can be reached and straight C can be written at the low level and C++ wrappers/abstraction layer could be what you use/develop? Just an idea and I am sure others will have valuable input. Please speak up guys and gals. We also have a separate IMAP library we would be willing to release under the same licensing terms.     Interesting. Have you looked at http://openconnector.org/bclient/ ? I don't know if it does the same things your library does or not. A bit about my background: I have about 11 years Windows programming experience,     Excellent. A lot more then I have thats for sure :) mostly with C and C++ writing GUI apps, Neat. Using visual studio/c or another development environment or...? NT services, Interesting. Any experience with IDL? TCP/IP communication modules, What exactly does that mean? and some device drivers (WinCE and some Windows and NT). Neato. What kind of hardware if I may ask? I've done some work with Simple MAPI and spent about 6 months working with Enhanced MAPI. I have other experience not related to this project, but I'll leave that for another time. What you garden? :) Is there any interest in help from myself or my company, SourceXtreme? Yes there most certainly is. If so, how can I help, or what would be the most helpful way my company could contribute to this project?     Well. I can't speak for the other developers but I would say that the release of the code you have been developing would be useful. Regards, Jason Nocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 610.457.8648 -- Charles N Wyble Homepage: http://www.thewybles.com/~charles Blog: http://jackshck.livejournal.com Developer/Consultant. 30.00 an hour is my fee.

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