<html><head></head><body>It's not a daft suggestion at all.<br>
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I'd love for there to be an openchange addon available. It's gpl so hard to integrate but that's a downstream issue. Also, it brings up a real discussion re pragmatism vs open standards. But first having an addon to learn from would be a good first step just like rkent's work.<br>
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--da<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">"Alan Lord (Gmail)" <alanslists@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; ">On 15/02/11 17:46, John Hopkins wrote:
> "The single biggest complaint was the lack of viable alternative to
> Outlook. The built-in Evolution was too unreliable, and Thunderbird
> refused to play ball with our Exchange server. Tim even attempted to
> install Outlook 2010 using WINE, but hit a brick wall (earlier versions
> apparently work better). Could we work long-term without a decent way to
> search our bulging inboxes or to schedule a team meeting? No. But
> solutions exist if we did plot a permanent switch to Ubuntu, such as
> running Exchange email and calendars via Google Apps."
Yep.
One project I've been watching for sometime, but not used, is OpenChange[1].
This is essentially from the Samba Team and aims to provide a full replacement to MS Exchange. There are server, proxy and MAPI client libraries available.
Perhaps some of this could be used in an extension rather than trying to re-invent the wheel. The Samba team clearly know MS protocols and also got the DOCs out of MS after the bun-fight in the EU a couple of years ago...
Al
PS: I am not really a developer so please don't shoot me if this is a daft suggestion ;-)
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