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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Akonadi + Microsoft Exchange
From:       Shaheed Haque <srhaque () theiet ! org>
Date:       2012-05-18 19:11:49
Message-ID: CAHAc2jfGZZvKP8h4B7CTJmSa-x6VVXRhJFAkJCetLRxKQCvnYw () mail ! gmail ! com
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Well, I think you might have missed the action :-) over in the playground at:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/pim/akonadi/exchange/

Back in November last year, Robert added the first steps in terms of a
new Akonadi resource for Exchange based on OpenChange's libmapi. I've
extensively expanded that with the following results.

1. Reading the GAL works pretty well. Tested with 400k entries. There
is a VERY comprehensive attempt to map the semantics of the GAL onto
kdepim.

- Incremental sync is missing because (a) I cannot make head nor tail
of how to create SPARQL queries and (b) I cannot get the fast way of
doing that using Exchange OABs working.

2. Reading the Calendar also works quite well. For some reason
automatic updates don't work. But a right click works well for me!

- Exceptions were working until kdepim 4.8.2, when something broke
(still waiting for a response on the list to try to figure this out).
If you want to try this, you'll need a fix to OpenChange which has not
yet been applied upstream.

- Explicit timezone support is missing (though events end up at the
right time, not sure that will work through a timezone transition).

- Attachments in calendar items are not supported yet.

3. Reading emails works pretty well. As with the GAL, there is a
pretty comprehensive mapping of Exchange semantics into kdepim.
Attachments work well except that I cannot seem to get the time of an
attachment. Nested attachments work too. There is pretty powerful
support for uniquely identifying sender/to/cc/bcc etc. Synchronisation
works.


As you'll see, the big missing item is write support. I'm not even
going to look at that until I can get the main missing bits of reading
working for the GAL and the Calendar (and I've not worked on anything
much in the past month or two). Mail is third priority in any event.
Right now, a small amount of help would go a looong way to filling
these gaps, and help is very welcome.

Thanks, Shaheed

On 18 May 2012 15:25, Pavel Mihaduk <root@eurostream.info> wrote:
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> As far as I know there's still no 100% working solution (davmail is fine, but
> not as good as one might wish). The most promising one is the OpenChange
> Akonadi resource - I even managed to make it fetch my e-mails back in the KDE
> 4.4 times.
> Unfortunately I've no idea about the status of the whole project, last news
> I've heard is that it was proposed for GSoC 2011 (but not accepted), and is in
> the "Available for Season of KDE" status (see
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_OpenChange_resource)
>
> BR,
> Pavel Mihaduk
>
>
> On 18 of May 2012 15:39:36 Michael Burger wrote:
>> Hey to everyone,
>>
>> I don't know if this is the right way to contact you.
>>
>> But I'm an passionate KDE user, and software developer in a company with a
>> windows user :'(
>> So there is a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server for our emails, calendar,
>> public folders and an LDAP address book.
>>
>>
>> I searched a long time and waite a couple of years for Akonadi + MS
>> Exchange resource.
>>
>> Now I'm using an IMAP Resource for my emails, a CALDAV Resource for my
>> Calendar and a LDAP resource for my address book (over DavMail)
>>
>> But I'm not very happy about that, something doesn't work very well. I know
>> this is a lot of work to implement anything but the IDEA of Akonadi +
>> Resource are great :)
>>
>>
>> My question is, is there not a complete MS Exchange resource like the
>> OpenXChange resource which handle anything.
>>
>> On this article
>> http://www.kubuntu-de.org/english/interview-tobias-k-nig-about-development-
>> akonadi Tobias König says "At the moment, there is work on a resource
>> allowing access to MS Exchange", but on the www there is not a lot about
>> that. So my question is, how is the point about that.
>>
>> Is there a resource to test or to use? What should I use or do?
>>
>> Can you help me?
>>
>> thk
>>    P.I. Michael Burger
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