Does any one know if the Evolution will work with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007? I’ve client and she needs to connect to corporate Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The problem is - connectivity doesn’t work. If anyone has any information or workaround please comment back.
Update 31/Dec/2007: Rocky pointed me to a thread about MAPI based plugin. It claims to works with Exchange server 2007.
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Have you tried the openchange MAPI plug-in for Evolution? It’s only a TP at the min but there next release is due out next week I think.
Hi,
since we just migrated to Exchange 2007 I can tell you, that Evolution will (i guess: for a long time) not be able to connect to Exchange 2007.
Evolution uses the Webfrontend to communicate. Since this is a complete rewrite for 2007, evolution is pretty useless.
She can only use the frontend or use Outlook in a Virtual environment or remote desktop.
If anyone knows better, I am happy to hear.
Philipp
But by using OpenChange it uses MAPI and not the webinterface.
Paul, it doesn’t work.
Philipp, you are 100% right. Just talked to someone at Novell support and they said it is unsupported. I ‘ve forwarded idea about using frontend or rdesktop.
I Appreciate all feedback!
Let me get more info about OpenChange, thanks!
Hmm, that’s a right pain. I was getting all excited about migrating to Ubuntu / Evolution in a dual boot environment. I guess I’m stuck with OWA or IMAP now…
Thanks for the definitive answer anyway!
Have a look at the Evolution-Brutus connector and server. I believe this provides a solution to Evolution/Exchange 2007 connectivity.
http://www.omesc.com/node/1
gnipper, thats a great find, but I wont be able to tell my IT dept to run the server app. Too bad though. I thought my answer had finally arrived.
I was able to get evolution to connect to Exchange 2007 at my company using the IMAP setting and using the IP address of the mail server. for some reason the server name wouldn’t recognize. I can get Evolution to connect to exchange using OWA until it tries to authenticate my username/password, then it fails. All this means, i can only send/recieve e-mail, i cannot use contacts, GAL, or Calendar. slightly dissapointing, but at least i got this far…
Crossover Linux by CodeWeavers works very well for Outlook 2003 connecting to exchange 2007 server. Have not tested office 2007/ outlook at this poing
Chris, would you explain in bit more details, as what is Crossover Linux by CodeWeavers? I think many other people waiting for an easy answer for this Evolution Exchange2007.
Crossover is built upon open source WINE software and it runs many Windows apps such as Office, Photoshop, Outlook etc under Linux operating systems. It cost around USD 40. More info at the following url:
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/
HTH
Crossover is very nice but the smime email functionality doesn’t not work with outlook 2007 :-( i have tried loading the certificates through ie7, but they aren’t loaded …
I have smime working under outlook 2007 using crossover, you just have to import your certificates into outlook security manager.
Thanks for the cxlinux info; I’ll give it a shot.
But back to the original question: when is Novell going to support Evolution for Exchange Server 2007, especially calendaring? We are a Unix shop and there are plenty of people interested in it.
Hi Andrew,
What do I need to connect evolution to Exchange 2007. I am using Opensuse
Evolution is capable of communicating with Microsoft Exchange servers if you install the Microsoft Exchange Connector.
Using IMAP in Evolution does not give you calendar, and contacts etc. The e-mail part works alright, though :)
Crossover using Wine Office 2007 installation on XP partition is a solution. But I’m having some problems getting Office 2007 up and running on wine. (I don’t want to install Office suite on Linux when already installed on XP partition). i would appreciate to have a tutorial on that.
My enterprise is a full Exchange 2007 shop and I’m trying to connect using Evolution 2.26.1 using either the Exchange MAPI or the MS Exchange OWA Server Type. Running Ubuntu 9.0 (2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 for i686)
Would vey much like to hear progress on having interoperability between Evolution and Exchange 2007.
I was able to get evolution to work with exchange 2007 using “evolution-mapi” plugin in ubuntu.
Were you able to make the calendar work? The rest has been working for me before, but the calendar feature doesn’t work.
No I cannot get the calendar to work, but since I update my ubuntu to 9.10 my evolution is not working.
Hi Everyone,
I just want to add to the bad news. Evolution does not work with Exchange 2007. You either have to use Wine and install Outlook or use the IMAP protocol. Again the draw back is that Calendar will not work, which is a big drawback when it comes to using Evolution. I am running 9.10 using VMware on a Macbook Pro and taught that might have been my problem with the Virtual Environment but installing it on a stand alone box didn’t fix the problem. I thought that on the new release the problem would be correct but no such luck as of yet. Will follow up to see if any fixes comes out
Hi All,
I have created a redirect rule for all mails to a private POP3 Mailbox within the OWA of Exchange 2007 and fetch them from there (OWA= Outlook Web Access, you need IE to do that, but only once). I sent my mails using that POP3 box with an authenticated SMTP access so that I can fake the “from-address” and I’am fine now without direct access to that M$ shit. The bad thing of Exchange 2003 was that you could only forward and therefore lost the original sender address, but Exchange 2007 can redirect and you will receive the mails as if they where directly sent to your POP3 box. Maybe that helps the one or the other.
Regards
Alex
I can connect using VBOX OSE in seemless mode to my exchange server. This seems to be the most carefree method of accomplishing the task. if you are a coder then you could build a back-end to run your own locally hosted bridge solution like my friend does but the degree of difficullty is much higher.
Have you tried DAVMAIL – http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
Works great with Exchange 2007