[desktop-discuss] Exchange 2007 client

[James Andrewartha]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> What are the best options (and possible future plans) for connecting to
> Exchange 2007?
> 
> Up until a week ago we were using an older version of exchange, and the
> evolution in Solaris 10 worked fine. (The newer evolution in SXCE apparently
> worked better for clander integration, but I didn't get on with it as a pure
> mail client so well.)
> 
> Now we've been "upgraded" and evolution won't talk to it. There doesn't
> seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm to enable anything like IMAP
> just so the one person in the company who doesn't have outlook can
> get on with his work and I'm currently stuck with Outlook Web Access :-(
> 
> Am I looking at waiting for an updated evolution client (2.22, maybe)?
> Or are there other alternatives for accessing exchange 2007?

There's a MAPI provider being developed for evolution that can talk to 2007. 
It won't ship as part of 2.22 but can be built from source: 
http://blogs.gnome.org/sragavan/2008/01/21/evolution-mapi-exchange-2007-preview/

-- 
James Andrewartha