[Kde-pim] Help needed to connect kontact with MS exchange server

[Shrinivasan T]

Thanks for your reply Michael.

Let me follow your suggessions and try.

I will mail you with the results.

Thanks.

dear,
T.Shrinivasan.

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 02:32, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> Good Luck! :)
>
> On Monday 05 March 2007, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> > Hi kde-pim team.
> >
> > I am Shrinivasan from chennai, india.
> > I use kontact extensively.
> >
> > I connect with the exchange server via pop and smtp.
> > But i can not get the the contacts and calenders.
> > In MS Outlook i get everything.
> >
> > The IT dept is nor running any ldap service.
> >
> > The exchange connectivity in "evolution" also not working.
> >
> > Please guide me to connect kontact with exchange server for
> > addressbook and calenders.
> >
> > Thanks you.
> >
> > dear,
> > T.Shrinivasan.
>
> * Kontact -- Exchange Support (4):
>
>   I've always had trouble with Evolution and Kontact.
>   I still need to use an RDP client for some Outlook
>   tasks - specifically,
>   for group scheduling.  But for daily email, ldap
>   contacts, personal appointments, and reading my
>   calendar, Kontact does a decent job.
>
>   Some things are actually much faster in Kontact than in
>   Outlook, such as searching messages, although
>   downloading email is slower.
>
>   UPDATE 20060916: A friend told me that Evolution has,
>   well, evolved and is much better than when I last tried
>   to use it (about 6mos ago).  I tried again.  On the KDE
>   desktop at least, it remains buggy and prone
>   to crashes.  I do really miss better calendar
>   integration, but after a day of trying, I've again
>   reverted to Kontact.
>
>   Open Kontact, and ...
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Kontact
>     [x] Always start with specified component <Mail>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> "Select Components"
>     [x] Calendar, News, Mail, Contacts
>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail ->
>     Misc, "Groupware" tab
>     [x] Enable IMAP resource functionality
>     [ ] Hide groupware folders
>     ----
>     [x] Mangle From:/To: headers...   # Outlook mangle
>     [x] Send invitations in mail body # Outlook mangle
>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Identities
>     Click "Add" button.  Everything should be clear
>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Accounts
>     "Receiving" Tab
>       "Add" button and select - [x] Disconnected IMAP
>       In the "Add Account" dialog
>         Account Name: ValueClick
>         Login: yourname
>         Password: yourpasswd
>         Host: exchange.mycompany.com
>         Port: 143
>         Namespaces: (click on the 2 arrow icon)
>         [x] Store IMAP Password
>         [ ] Show...
>         [ ] Show...
>         [x] Include in manual mail check
>         [ ] Enable....
>         ....
>       click "OK"
>       "Security" Tab - use defaults
>       "Filtering" Tab - use defaults
>     "Sending" Tab
>       Default Domain: valueclick.com
>       "Add" button and select - [x] SMTP
>       In the "Add Transport" dialog
>         Name: ValueClick
>         Host: exchange.mycompany.com
>         Port: 25
>         # Leave everything else as default
>       click "OK"
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Security
>     "Reading" Tab
>       [x] Prefer HTML to plain text # security vs
> convenience
>       [x] Allow messages to load .. # ditto
>       # Leave everything else as default
>     Click "OK"
>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Calender
>     -> Group Scheduling
>       [x] Use Groupware communication
>       Mail Client - [x] Kmail
>
>   In the Mail module (select on the upper RH side of the
> window),
>     File -> Check Mail # will update IMAP; will take some
> time
>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail -> Accounts
>     "Receiving" Tab
>       Select MyCompany account and click "Modify" button
>         Trash Folder: MyCompany/Deleted Items
>
>   In the Contacts module (select on the upper RH side of
> the window)
>     Near the bottom RH corner of the window
>       Click on "Add" button and then select "LDAP"
>       In resulting form:
>         Host: ldap.mycompany.com
>         # Click on "Query Server" button to get server
> details
>
>         Authentication: [x] Simple
>
>         Name: MyCompany
>         [x] ReadOnly
>         User: CORP\yourlogin
>         ...
>         Password: yourpasswd
>         ...
>         [x] Sub-tree query
>
>       And Click "OK"; You should now see LDAP entries to
> search through
>
>   Settings -> Configure Kontact -> Mail ->
> Misc, "Groupware" tab
>      ...
>      Resources folders are subfolders of: MyCompany
>      ...
>
>   In the Calendar module
>   (select on the upper RH side of the window)
>     Near the middle RH side, select the
>      "Default KOrganizer resource"
>     and then click the "Remove" button
>
>     Click on "Add" and select
>     "Calendar on IMAP Server via KMail"
>
>     You may wish to select
>        [x] Read-only
>     to prevent mucking up the calendar,
>     using only RDP to update it.  I find that a hassle, so
>     I have this unchecked.  But beware: don't do any group
>     scheduling here.
>
>
> Hope that helps!  Cheers, Mike

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