Re: evolution to exchange server
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:12 +1000, L wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote: Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. I think you need to install the exchange plugin with # yum install evolution-brutus -- Yes, I have this installed, How to configure it? evolution-brutus is only one of several ways of using Exchange with Evo. The MAPI plugin is another. I recommend taking this to the Evo list (http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list) poc I came across this some time back and it may help. http://www.openchange.org/ We are still on Exchange server 2003 so I can use http://www.saunalahti.fi/juhrauti/index.html POP and IMAP are turned off in my case. -- Robin Laing -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:46 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: I came across this some time back and it may help. http://www.openchange.org/ This is the source of the evolution-mapi plugin currently in F11. We are still on Exchange server 2003 so I can use http://www.saunalahti.fi/juhrauti/index.html Looks like an OK workaround for mail, but apparently won't do calendars, etc. POP and IMAP are turned off in my case. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:51:27PM -0400, Mail Lists wrote: On 09/27/2009 12:37 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: . Does that about sum it up, O more knowledgeable ones? Sounds pretty good - except I think the server was open source and that version (up to 1.0) is still available with some googling. I found a binary of version 0.96.36 and source for 1.0 i think. Do you have links for those? -- Pasi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:44 +1000, L wrote: MAPI seems get evolution connected to exchange server, but crashed frequently. I'd like try Brutus. How to configure Brutus? In Evolution Account Editor, there is a session 'Brutus Settings', it asks for Exchange email address Window Domian Brutus Server Brutus Server port Can someone explain what are these, in particular the brutus server and port? What I've picked up from the discussion is this: You need to run (or have your Exchange admin run) a Brutus server on a Windows box. The Brutus server connects to Exchange Server via the MAPI interface. You set up Evolution to connect to the Brutus server, and you interact with Exchange via the Brutus middleman. This would be all well and good, except that recently, nobody seems to be able to locate the Brutus developers or find a current download for the server. My guess is that the server is not open source, as the devs would have had to sign an NDA with Microsoft to get up-to-date specs for Exchange MAPI. Whether it's inexpensive enough to run one's own server is another question we can't answer without access to the developers. Does that about sum it up, O more knowledgeable ones? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On 09/27/2009 12:37 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: . Does that about sum it up, O more knowledgeable ones? Sounds pretty good - except I think the server was open source and that version (up to 1.0) is still available with some googling. I found a binary of version 0.96.36 and source for 1.0 i think. But it feels like the developer (single?) is trying to go commercial with julia which seems to based on brutus. So the code probably is at a standstill but is available under GPL. If one were to install a kvm with win xp in it, we should be able to run brutus server in that - tho i dont have visual c++ to compile it. g -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 23:11 -0400, Mail Llists wrote: On 09/24/2009 10:28 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: The basic way to configure any of these is: install the plugin RPM, restart evolution, create an account and select Brutus (or Exchange or MAPI, resp.) as the server type. You'll need some information about server URLs, which your admins can supply. In particular, the Brutus setup asks for a port, but nobody I've asked seems to know what the right port is. I need to connect to exchange 2007 - with no imap. In my experience. a) thunderbird does not work. Correct--no MAPI. no OWA. b) evo with owa does not work (it scrapes things based on older owa) Correct again. c) evo-mapi - kind of reads some mails - but crashes doing almost anything (like copying mails). It also was unable to send any mails to any exchange user - mail stays in outbox - oddly it works perfectly well sending mail to anyone outside address! evo-mapi is probably the future, but it's not there yet. There's a patch in Bugzilla to fix the problem with interminable rescanning, but it hasn't been incorporated yet. I don't know about the other crashes you've experienced--I haven't had a chance to get that far yet. d) evo brutus may be the only chance - tho it may not be active, and i was not able to find the required desktop windows server as i mentioned before. I used to have a link to them, but I don't think it was 42tools.com. Nevertheless, that seems to be where most Web links point to, and there's no reference to it there. i'd really like to get this going ... gene -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Matthew Saltzman m...@clemson.edu wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 23:11 -0400, Mail Llists wrote: On 09/24/2009 10:28 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: The basic way to configure any of these is: install the plugin RPM, restart evolution, create an account and select Brutus (or Exchange or MAPI, resp.) as the server type. You'll need some information about server URLs, which your admins can supply. In particular, the Brutus setup asks for a port, but nobody I've asked seems to know what the right port is. I need to connect to exchange 2007 - with no imap. In my experience. a) thunderbird does not work. Correct--no MAPI. no OWA. b) evo with owa does not work (it scrapes things based on older owa) Correct again. c) evo-mapi - kind of reads some mails - but crashes doing almost anything (like copying mails). It also was unable to send any mails to any exchange user - mail stays in outbox - oddly it works perfectly well sending mail to anyone outside address! evo-mapi is probably the future, but it's not there yet. There's a patch in Bugzilla to fix the problem with interminable rescanning, but it hasn't been incorporated yet. I don't know about the other crashes you've experienced--I haven't had a chance to get that far yet. d) evo brutus may be the only chance - tho it may not be active, and i was not able to find the required desktop windows server as i mentioned before. I used to have a link to them, but I don't think it was 42tools.com. Nevertheless, that seems to be where most Web links point to, and there's no reference to it there. i'd really like to get this going ... gene Hi MAPI seems get evolution connected to exchange server, but crashed frequently. I'd like try Brutus. How to configure Brutus? In Evolution Account Editor, there is a session 'Brutus Settings', it asks for Exchange email address Window Domian Brutus Server Brutus Server port Can someone explain what are these, in particular the brutus server and port? Thanks -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On 09/24/2009 10:28 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: There's a patch in Bugzilla, but there hasn't been a release pushed yet with the patch. The Brutus connector should work with Exchange 2007, but there are some configuration issues. The basic way to configure any of these is: install the plugin RPM, restart evolution, create an account and select Brutus (or Exchange or MAPI, resp.) as the server type. You'll need some information about server URLs, which your admins can supply. In particular, the Brutus setup asks for a port, but nobody I've asked seems to know what the right port is. I'd like to know too - best I can tell, however, brutus will talk to a brutus server - which runs on any desktop witrh user privs only (not the exchange server) and uses MAPI to communicate with exchnage server and in turn then passes it to the evo brutus client. However I didnt seem to find a copy of the sever (see http://www.ohloh.net/p/3184 for example). Let us know if you manage to find the server and get it working gene -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On 09/24/2009 10:28 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: The basic way to configure any of these is: install the plugin RPM, restart evolution, create an account and select Brutus (or Exchange or MAPI, resp.) as the server type. You'll need some information about server URLs, which your admins can supply. In particular, the Brutus setup asks for a port, but nobody I've asked seems to know what the right port is. I need to connect to exchange 2007 - with no imap. In my experience. a) thunderbird does not work. b) evo with owa does not work (it scrapes things based on older owa) c) evo-mapi - kind of reads some mails - but crashes doing almost anything (like copying mails). It also was unable to send any mails to any exchange user - mail stays in outbox - oddly it works perfectly well sending mail to anyone outside address! d) evo brutus may be the only chance - tho it may not be active, and i was not able to find the required desktop windows server as i mentioned before. i'd really like to get this going ... gene -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On 09/25/2009 11:11 PM, Mail Llists wrote: e, and i was not able to find the required desktop windows server as i To be more specific - clicking on the download page I get a blank page. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
evolution to exchange server
Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. L -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote: Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. I think you need to install the exchange plugin with # yum install evolution-brutus -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote: Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. I think you need to install the exchange plugin with # yum install evolution-brutus -- Yes, I have this installed, How to configure it? Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
The easiest solution for you (the user) would probably be using IMAP to have Evolution retrieve email from Exchange - if it's enabled on the Exchange server. If you, or someone else, can convince the Exchange owner to enable IMAP, that is. -- Jamie On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:12 AM, L yuan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote: Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. I think you need to install the exchange plugin with # yum install evolution-brutus -- Yes, I have this installed, How to configure it? Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:12 +1000, L wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote: Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. I think you need to install the exchange plugin with # yum install evolution-brutus -- Yes, I have this installed, How to configure it? I'm not sure how to configure evolution-brutus (I'd like to know, because I'd like to try it), but there are a couple of alternatives to consider as well. * There is an OWA connector called evolution-exchange that works (more or less) with Exchange 2003 server, but not with Exchange 2007. It crashes frequently, but is at least functional most of the time with the somewhat limited features that are provided through OWA. * There is a MAPI connector called evolution-mapi that is supposed to work with Exchange 2007. Right now, it has a but that makes it close to unusable--it rescans the contents of the Inbox (and maybe other folders as well) every time you switch to them. There's a patch in Bugzilla, but there hasn't been a release pushed yet with the patch. The Brutus connector should work with Exchange 2007, but there are some configuration issues. The basic way to configure any of these is: install the plugin RPM, restart evolution, create an account and select Brutus (or Exchange or MAPI, resp.) as the server type. You'll need some information about server URLs, which your admins can supply. In particular, the Brutus setup asks for a port, but nobody I've asked seems to know what the right port is. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: evolution to exchange server
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:12 +1000, L wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:58 +1000, L wrote: Hi, I am looking for information how to connect evolution to MS exchange mail server. The institute switched the mail server to MS exchange. The temporary solution is outlook on XP on VirtualBox, but this is not preferable. Any help is great. I think you need to install the exchange plugin with # yum install evolution-brutus -- Yes, I have this installed, How to configure it? evolution-brutus is only one of several ways of using Exchange with Evo. The MAPI plugin is another. I recommend taking this to the Evo list (http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
