Comments on: Evolution Email Client and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Connectivity Problem

By: frozen.fire

frozen.fire — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:34:12 +0000

Brilliant topic Vivek…!! Cheers to all the contributors for their experiences and ideas.

I tried evolution mail with evolution-mapi as well as webdav for synchronising with exchange 2007…both worked like a charm for me, i somehow prefered to go ahead with evolution-mapi. My terminal server’s (for use with thin clients) soft specs are:
Ubuntu 10.04
Kernel 2.6.32-33-generic
GNOME 2.30.2
Evolution 2.28.3
evolution-mapi v 0.28.3-0ubuntu1 (latest available on synaptic pkg man)
likewise-open to join with windows AD domain

I thought i should post my experience here too. after installing the evolution-mapi i started evolution, in receiving options i selected exchange MAPI from dropdown. entered the IP of the exchange (didnt even bother to try using the domain name as it was complained many times that IP works and domain name doesnt, bizzarre, eh?!!). anyway, filled the username and domain and done..!! Just as a note, dont panic if you couldn’t see the contacts from the GAL by clicking on ‘To’ in compose message. you just need to switch to Contacts from Mail and select Global Address List, it will start searching contacts (apparently it’ll show the searching message for ever if left idle, that seems to be a bug..?!!). wait for, say, a minute and type a name(that you know exists in the GAL) in the search field and hit Enter. The contact will be visible (you may also make your GAL the default contact list by right-click on the name of the list in the left pane and clicking on properties). Clear the search and Enter….Voila…!! all the contacts will be visible. Now you will also be able to see the whole list in the contact selection while composing (I couldn’t figure out how to auto complete the e-mail address in evolution like in outlook by Ctrl+K).

Hope this helps someone paranoid like myself (before I figured this out, thanks again to the article by Vivek and the contributors).

Cheers..!! Good Luck. :-)

By: CiscoGeek

CiscoGeek — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:16:09 +0000

Evolution works with exchange 2007. You need to install the following plugin:

evolution-mapi

I’m connected and looking at emails now. Nothing fancy.

By: Bazza

Bazza — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:48:54 +0000

Ah. I realise now these are comments about Exchange 2007. My mistake!

By: Bazza

Bazza — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:48:05 +0000

Same here – just got Evolution 2.28.3 on my Ubuntu 10.04 connecting to my work MS Exchange 2003 server on the LAN. Didn’t have to do anything fancy. It just worked.

By: Mephisto_11

Mephisto_11 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:01:01 +0000

I got Evolution 2.83 running without a hitch on OZ Ubuntu 10.04 with any connectors or any plug-ins. Most of the adjustments are with the preceeding tab and the domain adjustments with adding the right prefix with the username ie
LTR\ssewall
\

By: RVN152

RVN152 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:39:56 +0000

We need integration of evolution with exchange 2007, else no ubuntu at work, back to windows.. :(

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:51:22 +0000

Same configuration and steps taken. Still no solution though.

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:09:51 +0000

I just done it and worked

Thanks Paul

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:56:29 +0000

I’ve done this, but the exchange MAPI connector throws a segmentation fault every time it connects. I get these errors:
libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c:2874: exchange_mapi_create_profile: lock(connect_lock)
Unknown parameter encountered: “max log size”
Ignoring unknown parameter “max log size”
Unknown parameter encountered: “syslog”
Ignoring unknown parameter “syslog”
Unknown parameter encountered: “passdb backend”
Ignoring unknown parameter “passdb backend”
Unknown parameter encountered: “unix password sync”
Ignoring unknown parameter “unix password sync”
Unknown parameter encountered: “passwd program”
Ignoring unknown parameter “passwd program”
Unknown parameter encountered: “pam password change”
Ignoring unknown parameter “pam password change”
Unknown parameter encountered: “map to guest”
Ignoring unknown parameter “map to guest”
Unknown parameter encountered: “usershare allow guests”
Ignoring unknown parameter “usershare allow guests”
Unknown parameter encountered: “guest ok”
Ignoring unknown parameter “guest ok”
Unknown parameter encountered: “guest ok”
Ignoring unknown parameter “guest ok”
Logging into the server… succeeded
libexchangemapi-Message: exchange-mapi-connection.c:146: exchange_mapi_connection_close: lock(connect_lock)
Segmentation fault

Any ideas?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:41:03 +0000

Same for me. Cant be that hard to add an SSL-feature, can it?

By: MH

MH — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:57:41 +0000

HI!
I have the same problem as Tim. I need to set up SSL to connect.
It works perfectly with a lot of phones but there is no sulotion for a computer…?

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:07:23 +0000

evolution-mapi didn’t work for me, as suggested by “SOLUTION August 19, 2010″. I believe it’s due to my exchange server requiring SSL only connections and no way to set up SSL in the mapi plugin.
Using:
Ubuntu 10.10
evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6
evolution-mapi 0.30.3-1ubuntu1

By: JJFrigle

JJFrigle — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:20:21 +0000

The mapi plugin worked great for mail and contacts, but I haven’t been able to get it work with the calendar and the global address list. I can search the Global Address List and find people’s email address, but it doesn’t pull up the rest of the information from AD.

By: Nimesh

Nimesh — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:12:34 +0000

evolution-mapi worked for me too, as suggested by “SOLUTION August 19, 2010″

By: Random Walk

Random Walk — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:45:43 +0000

At least in Ubuntu 10.10 (RC), you just add it. That’s it. I have the advantage of full access to the Exchange 2k7 servers @work, but I tend to not want to monkey with ‘em just for my own pet projects (I know, I know :) ). I can say however that with generic/ordinary settings at the server side (Basic Auth, Integrated Windows Auth), this plugin works very nicely.

By: Tobes

Tobes — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:42:50 +0000

@Solution:
Could you let us know which versions of Evolution and evolution-MAPI you are using? Also did you have to install any additional packages?

I have the following:
Ubuntu 10.04
Evolution 2.28.3
evolution-MAPI 0.28.3-0ubuntu1

I can’t get the server to authenticate. Server name is correct. I have tried IP address as well. Have also tried with and without “https:\\ … \owa”.

Any ideas welcome.
Thanks a lot,
Tobes

By: tom

tom — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:20:56 +0000

evolution mapi works for me too, but, i have used outlook for 3-4 years with many folders and years worth of undeleted emails in these folders, evolution mapi sucks for me, i constantly have to close evolution and re-open it to see whats in my folders. then it works only half the time. i have an issue where sometimes the new messages get dropped into my local account “outbox” and i have to again close and re-open to get them to send.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:22:24 +0000

Since our IT changed from Exchange2003 to 007 I ran into the same problem.
I do use Ubuntu 10.04. Trying OWA is not possible anymore.
When installing evolution-mapi I can receive/send emails, but calender doesnt work.

Ubuntu comes with evolution 2.28 (not 2.3x).
There is a ppa: repository with 2.30.3, but the developer told me that he is not able to get evolution-mapi compiled anymore.

Where did you (SOLUTION) get your package from?

By: SOLUTION

SOLUTION — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:36:30 +0000

Like Robert, I was able to get it working with the Evolution MAPI package. I had tried everything and searched for hours. I found this post and searched Synaptic package manager and found the package that solved the problem. evolution-mapi is the exact name of the package.

Then, go into Evolution and choose server type: Exchange MAPI. Then, its a lot more straightforward and all you have to enter is the Server Username & Domain.

And by the way….EVERYTHING WORKS. Mail, Contacts, Calendar…got it all. By the way, I am running Exchange Server 2007. I hope the people that were as frustrated as me can find this because this was a HUGGGEEE relief for me being that we did not have POP or IMAP enabled on our server.

Good luck guys

By: mmmmpppp

mmmmpppp — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:13:23 +0000

Can anyone give me a detailed setup of the davmail with evolution to get access to my exchange 2007 server ? I keep on getting a MAPI network access error when I try to do this …