2008/3/19 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet(a)samba.org>:
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:12 +0100, nodata wrote:
> Am Montag, den 17.03.2008, 17:25 +0100 schrieb Valent Turkovic:
> > Hi,
> > I use fedora 6 for my primary desktop at work and also I have 2 test
> > laptops that I run latest versions of Fedora 8 and Rawhide...
> >
> > For me and my work Evolution is a mission critical app :) Because I
> > can't see my email without it, obviously.
> >
> > Now evolution-exchange is broken again for me on Fedora 8! :( I use
> > Fedora 6 because I can't move from it because F7 an F8 have issues and
> > bugs that aren't on evolution-exhange in FC6.
> >
> > I'm not writing this about those bugs and I'm not providing links
> > because they are in BZ for a long time.
> >
> > I'm looking for a way how can I work with Fedora teams so that
> > evoultion-exchange doesn't get pushed if it breaks working features
> > (as it has been happening in last 2 years as I have noticed).
> >
> > I'm volunteering to test evolution-exchange packages before they go
> > out and give evolution maintainers a heads up it new version would
> > break stuff.
> >
> > Can you please point me in the right direction.
> >
> > ps. good news is that I see rawhide version of evolution-exchange
> > works as good as FC6 one! Finally! F7 and F8 are unusable for my work
> > and probably others that use exchange as mail server.
> >
> > Valent.
> >
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>
> Evolution works fine for me, but I don't use Exchange with it any more.
>
> I was told that the reason for the absolute and complete breakage with
> Exchange from Evolution is that there is no proper maintainer for
> Evolution and that everybody wished it wasn't the standard e-mail app.
>
> Besides, I suppose the "correct" approach for Exchange<->mail
client
> integration, besides using pop3/imap(?) is to have an Exchange proxy
> that sits between the two.
>
> But I expect there are good reasons for not having that.
The correct solution would be to use the evolution plugin that
OpenChange is developing. This is the best long-term solution as it
uses the same protocols that Outlook uses.
Andrew Bartlett
I don't see any package that looks like evolution plugin for
openchange in rawhide repos. Is there a plan to package it soon so we
users can test it?
Valent.
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