OpenChange – the Holy Grail of interoperability with MS Exchange/Linux
November 14, 2008 2 Comments
For a while I’ve been fighting the good fight with poor stability using the webDav Exchange connection in Novell evolution. This has now been replaced with a more functional solution (proper native MAPI support) in Ubuntu 8.10 and will be soon in Fedora 10 with OpenChange.
Finally, Evolution is behaving as you might expect it to when connecting to an Exchange server – the improvements are immense, both in stability and functionality.
The OpenChange site is here for more information:
http://www.openchange.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Hopefully this will be an end to using a buggy interface and the all to frequent crashes, along with the curse of occasional missing mail items. I’ve only been using it for a day, but already I’m loving it!
I just installed 8.10 and am running Evolution. I don’t see any plugin installed, or available to use openchange MAPI in evo. I so a standalone openchange client, but I assume evo needs a plugin. I’m curious how you got it running.
Just apt-get install evolution-exchange – if you then add a new mail account you will be asked the type. Select Microsoft Exchange and populate the details.
TIP: After typing the OWA URL and username, leave the mailbox blank and hit authenticate….if you try to populate the mailbox yourself it bombs horribly!