[needs-packaging] Package the OpenChange plugin for evolution

[Steinar Bang]

Binary package hint: evolution

This is actually a feature request, and not a bug report. But I couldn't find any settings for feature requests.

Could the OpenChange Evolution plugin be packaged for Ubuntu?
 http://www.openchange.org/

This is a FreeBSD licensed native MAPI connection to the exchange server.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

Checking the contents of both -plugins and -plugins-experimental for evolution I did not find OpenChange.

Setting as Confirmed

[Kevin Fries (kevin-kevinfries)]

Evolution does not operate correctly with Exchange 2007+. This package should fix that incompatibility. Hoping this can make it into Intrepid Ibex

[Ramon Casha (rcasha)]

This is very important. Unfortunately Evolution's exchange connector is very buggy and with Exchange 2007 things get worse. This is a project which brings native Exchange support to Evolution as well as KDE.

[Kaare Baastrup (kaare-baastrup)]

This is a feature a lot of people is missing, lets hope it can be fixed soon.

[amid1999 (amidsin1999)]

This would allow more people in corporate environment to switch to Ubuntu without such ugly solutions as trying to run Outlook in wine or in a virtual machine.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Hi all,
 I do see the stuff packaged for intrepid.

~$ aptitude search openchange
p openchangeclient - Command-line client for the MAPI (Exchange
p openchangeclient-dbgsym - debug symbols for package openchangeclient
p openchangeproxy - Experimental MAPI (Exchange/Outlook) proxy
p openchangeproxy-dbgsym - debug symbols for package openchangeproxy
p openchangeserver - Experimental MAPI (Exchange/Outlook) serve
p openchangeserver-dbgsym - debug symbols for package openchangeserver

$ aptitude show openchangeserver
Package: openchangeserver
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 1.0~svn679-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 205k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libdcerpc0, libldb-samba4-0, libmapi0, libndr0,
         libsamba-hostconfig0, libtalloc1, samba4 (>= 4.0.0~)
Description: Experimental MAPI (Exchange/Outlook) server
 This is a plugin for Samba 4 that adds server-side support for the
MAPI protocol that is used by Microsoft Outlook and Exchange.

 This package is alpha software.
Homepage: http://www.openchange.org/
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[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

This Debian bug is about openchange, not about the openchange evolution plugin.

[rdasilva (rdasilva-acm)]

Then why is the title "Package the OpenChange plugin for evolution". The plugin is still missing from the distribution.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

The OpenChange plugin for Evolution is called evolution-mapi.

It is already in Jaunty Universe.

[rdasilva (rdasilva-acm)]

Thanks Andrew. I found it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. But that's a different problem. ;-)