[Gllug] Evolution Connector

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Wed May 12 12:30:47 UTC 2004


On May 12, 11:51, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:43:22AM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:01:04AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> > > 
> > > John Hearns writes:
> > > 
> > > >Evolution Connector will become available for free from 14th May
> > > 
> > > Far more importantly, it'll become Free at the same time -- they're
> > > releasing the source under the GPL.
> > > 
> > > 	http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/05/pr04034.html
> > 
> > In which case, we can then easily work out the protocol that Exchange talks
> > and theoretically be able to replace it much more easily too!
> 
> Speaking with the benefit of ignorance, I notice at
> 
> 	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/11/novell_connector/
> 
> the comment:
> 
> 	Connector only works if Outlook Web Access is enabled
> 
> Does this mean that it works by parsing the web output generated by exchange ?
> I must admit that I thought that it worked by speaking MAPI (proprietary
> protocol used between outlook & exchange).
> 
> Does anyone know more ?

http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid6368

Remeber reading this a while back hope it helps.

Peace Jim
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