Re: evolution-exchange fails again in F8

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2008/3/19 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
>  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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