Comments on: Evolution MAPI Plugin on Ubuntu 9.04

By: Martina Dotson

Martina Dotson — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:44:25 +0000

9.04 fixed the Evolution Exchange 2007 OWA connector. It finally works !

By: henri

henri — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:07:29 +0000

Thansk all for the info. Would you say that, if someone does not use Exchange, but just Outlook PST stand-alone there is no way to output pst content to Evolution?….

Henri

By: DamnHandy » MAPI Support in Evolution is Far From Stable

DamnHandy » MAPI Support in Evolution is Far From Stable — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:07:00 +0000

[...] an account is busted. Each time I’d go to authenticate, Evolution would simply crash. Then I found this post which suggested using the IP address instead of the host name, which actaully [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:12:48 +0000

I am having issues connecting to the exchange server.

I am connecting to a hosted exchange server that uses RPC proxy connection. The method I connect using outlook is:
Client Box
Ubuntu 9.04
samba4
Evo 2.26.1
Evo – MAPI 0.26.0.1

Remote Exchange information
exchange.servername.net -> no IP
proxy server: rpc.servername.net -> have the IP
ID: name@company.com

I have the IP address for the rpc.servername.net, but not for the exchange.servername.net. I also do not have the port number for the connection.

Does anyone know the syntax I would need to know to make the connection?

By: Simes

Simes — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:02:20 +0000

I’ve got it working – sort of. Inbox and sub-folders display fine and fast. Biggest problem I have with it is that it seems to assume that all emails are from people within your organisation and when you reply it just puts their name in the ‘to:’ box. So it’s ignoring email addresses basically.

To reply to an email you have to manually type in the email address (or get it from contacts/GAL etc) unless they are internal to your Exchange server. This seems a bit of a bug to me.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:45:54 +0000

Thanks for reporting on your results. I just tried this out today with similar results (using domain name-> segfault, using IP->success). As with others I am seeing huge ram usage while syncing my inbox (which admittedly is rather large). Also, its using ~20-40% cpu on a 2ghz C2D. I am wondering if this is a one time thing, or will it use this much ram (and cpu) whenever I open my inbox?

I guess I’ll try and see what happens.

By: Jelle

Jelle — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:08:06 +0000

Anon,

cool you got it working, the MAPI plugin works for my emails, not for my calendar en GAL. I still prefere the old method (OWA), but I don’t get it working:

(evolution:6535): e-utils-WARNING **: GConf error:
Type mismatch: Expected list, got string
is the message i get.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:03:45 +0000

My company recently upgraded to Exchange 2007 from 2003, which broke my OWA connector plugin in Evolution on Ubuntu 8.10. So upon upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, I tried to get it working again. Using the add account wizard, I entered my email address, and OWA URL address as https://webmail.companydomail.com, and username, then clicked authenticate. After a few seconds the mailbox name is auto populated, which shows authentication worked. This was the step that previously failed when trying to connect to Exchnage 2007, so looks like it is finally fixed.

By the way, I’ve had no luck with the exchange MAPI plugin, although I can authenticate, I can only see the Favorites folder, with no email folders. So for now I’ll stick with the OWA connector.

By: John

John — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:51:26 +0000

can someone confirm how the OWA is working and how it should be configured?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:15:52 +0000

9.04 fixed the Evolution Exchange 2007 OWA connector. It finally works !