Comment 77 for bug 207723

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 22:19 +0000, emdalton wrote:
> I have this on Jaunty and Evolution 2.26.1 with Exchange 2007 (no IMAP
> support). However, I had it working last week. I've had a couple of
> daily upgrades to my desktop since then, and the connection seems to
> have stopped working yesterday. Now I keep getting requests for password
> while trying to connect, and "Exchange is offline, cannot display
> folders" while trying to edit the account." I get repeated footer errors
> "Error while Scanning folders in "Exchange server <servername>."
>
> I tried deleting and recreating the account, and got the error "The
> server is running Exchange 5.5. Exchange Connector supports Microsoft
> Exchange 2000 and 2003 only." I know the Exchange servers were upgraded
> to 2007 about a month ago, but again, the connection was working two
> days ago. I can try to find out if IT did anything different with the
> Exchange servers this week, but they're not too keen to support linux
> desktops here, so I don't know if they'll tell me anything.
>
> Ironically, the reason I went to Jaunty was specifically for the
> Exchange 2007 support in Evolution 2.26.1. The outlook web access is
> pretty awful if you're not using IE.
>
The package which provides support for Exchange 2007 is evolution-mapi.
You'll also have to change the account from Exchange to MAPI account.
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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin