Ximian's Exchange Connector

[eckat]

Hello everyone,

so I know this is a burning discussion on several boards for quite some time already. Especially here at Novell who is on duty in that case: http://forums.novell.com/group/novell.support.ximian.connector/readerNoFrame.tpt/@thread@265@F@10@D-,D@NONE+272+246/@article@246

Unfortunately my company is running exchange too. I use FC3 here on my notebook which is my central working place and accessing OWA through a webbrowser just doesn't make it. A few weeks ago the windows staff that is resonsible for inhouse IT upgraded from exchange 2000 to 2003 and my evolution connector stopped working. This is a well known issue and I am just curious if anyone found a workaround or another solution for this.

Respectfully yours,
Eckat

[Void Main]

Yes, I have been using it for over a year now and it is working just fine (a few minor bugs but nothing drastic). There was a period where I had this problem and created my own custom RPMs for evolution-connector from CVS where the problem was corrected (see this thread (now out of date)). The current connector RPMS for Fedora Core 3 seem to be working just fine though. I am currently running Fedora Core 3 with these evolution RPMS:

evolution-2.0.2-3
evolution-connector-2.0.2-1
evolution-data-server-1.0.2-3

On the "Receiving Mail" tab I have:

Exchange Server: yourowaserver.yourdomain.com
Windows Username: youruserid@yourdomain.com

Use SSL: Always

On the "Receiving Options" tab I have:
Mailbox name: youruserid
OWA path: /exchange

That should be it, it "should" work. I have used it with 2000 and 2003. We can't get GAL to work but LDAP connections work just as well (or better) than GAL.

[eckat]

Thanks for the reply Void Main.

The versions I am currently working with are:
evolution-data-server-1.0.2-3
evolution-2.0.2-3
evolution-connector-2.0.3-1

The connector is a higher version, than the one you use and not the original FC3 one. A few days ago I was searching around the web desperatly looking for some hints or perhaps some newer connector release. I found this one but got same connection failures:Could not connect to server <OWAIPaddress>: Network error

I've just tried the settings you suggested. I am sure I tested them before but I just gave it another go. Still no luck. I am more and more in the oppinion that there is something wrong with the exchange servers config. Maybe some security thing that blocks it.

I will just delay this. Thanks so far. Hopefully there will be an official statement of Novells developers on their boards soon.