Comment 50 for bug 338982

I am as annoyed about this as anybody else; this is the *single* feature that I cared about in Jaunty and in fact I upgraded my main desktop from Intrepid to Jaunty as soon as Evolution 2.26 was "released" just for this functionality.

That having been said, it seems more appropriate to direct our frustration at upstream. Ubuntu hasn't invested in evolution or evolution-mapi at all and they're just taking what GNOME claims to be giving them; the evolution team meanwhile should be raked over the coals for claiming this thing works when it's little more than a cruelly painful joke right now.

That having been said, if you guys are going to drop it from Jaunty, you should do so explicitly rather than letting users find out for themselves that it doesn't actually work. Right now there's all kinds of nice fluffy press coverage about how evolution-mapi lets Linux users talk to Exchange; this cookie cuttery copy is all clearly written by people who don't even use Exchange (and probably don't even use Linux), and who clearly have not tried out the feature before touting its availability.