No: the Evolution support sits on top of work done by the OpenChange project. They also rely on some of the features of Samba 4 as well. Evo-MAPI is still very much a work in progress, and I do not think it will be ready by GA date of Ubuntu 9.04, just based purely on my observation of progress. For what it is worth, the Novell implementation of this is not any better in OpenSUSE 11.1.

It appears to me (though JJohnny at Novell would be the definitive source here), from reading the various developer forums that the OpenChange folks do some work and add features and fix bugs in OpenChange, and then the Evolution-MAPI folks figure out how to take advantage of the new features and map them into existing Evolution functionality.

With the IP address hack, I can now read my inbox again, and that is about it. Reply rarely works because GAL (Global Address List) is not yet integrated. Only SMTP email addresses can be replied to. Calendar, Tasks, Out of Office... all that is not there at all yet. 


Steve Carl
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BMC Software

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
> Alois Hammer
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:45 PM
> To: Carl, Steve
> Subject: [Bug 338982] Re: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV during MAPI
> authentication
> 
> @Carl:
> 
> Are evo-exchange and support libs part of OC proper?  I'm experiencing
> major problems, IP or no, connecting to an Exchange 2003 setup...
> 
> --
> evolution crashed with SIGSEGV during MAPI authentication
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338982
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
> 
> Status in “evolution-mapi” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in evolution-mapi in Ubuntu Jaunty: Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evolution
> 
> after installing evolution-mapi and going through the account creation
> process, I enter my exchange server, user name and domain name and
> click authenticate. After entering my password and putting ok, I wait
> for a few seconds and then evolution segfaults.
> 
> 
> Release: 9.04 Alpha5
> Evolution Version: 2.25.92-0ubuntu2
> Expected evolution / mapi component to authenticate and move to next
> step in account setup screen.
> Evolution crashed.
> 
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> CrashCounter: 1
> Disassembly: 0xe814ec70:
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
> Package: evolution 2.25.92-0ubuntu2
> ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: evolution
> StacktraceTop:
>  ?? ()
>  ?? () from /usr/lib/libdcerpc.so.0
>  ?? () from /usr/lib/libdcerpc.so.0
>  ?? () from /usr/lib/libdcerpc.so.0
>  ?? () from /usr/lib/libdcerpc.so.0
> Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare