[Kde-pim] Exchange (MAPI) akonadi resource for calendar and GAL

[Boris shtrasman]

Hi ,

tried with exchange 2007 + debian it didn't work.
I had to install samba + libmapi
the first error I got was :

Unable to find backend for
'tdb:///home/boris/.openchange/profiles.ldb' - do you need to set
LDB_MODULES_PATH?  Unable to find backend for '' - do you need to set
LDB_MODULES_PATH? after restarting using akonadictl
so guessing around I've set up LDB_MODULES_PATH to
usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/ldb

$ set | grep LDB_MODULES
LDB_MODULES_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/ldb

after that I'm getting an error :

Database "akonadi" opened using driver "QMYSQL"
Failed to bind to uuid 1544f5e0-613c-11d1-93df-00c04fd7bd09 -
NT_STATUS_NET_WRITE_FAULT

I get a popus with "An error occured during the creation of the new
profile" when creating a new profile.

On 20/11/2011, rgruber at users.sourceforge.net
<rgruber at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as maybe some of you I'm forced to use Outlook/Exchange at work.
> While the sending and receiving of e-mails works fine via akonadi's
> IMAP resource, the things that bother me the most were the missing
> access to the Global Address List and the Exchange Calendar. So earlier
> this year I started two write two akonadi resources, one that retrieves
> the contacts from the Global Address List and one that retrieves the
> events from the exchange calendar. Both currently work read-only,
> meaning that they only retrieve the contacts and events from the
> exchange server but do not allow to change them or add new ones.
> While this is perfectly OK for the Global Address List, it will be
> the next feature that I plan to add to the calendar resource.
>
> I'm using them in my daily work for quite a while now and I pretty
> satisfied with how they work. The only downside (for now) is: For
> scheduling new meetings I use Outlook WebAccess and for accepting
> meeting requests the e-mail includes a link to Outlook WebAccess.
> Afterwards I synchronize Kontact and the events appear in Kontact's
> calendar.
>
> The resources use OpenChange's libmapi to retrieve the data from the
> Exchange server. I've used libmapi version 0.11 which is included in
> KUbuntu 11.10. I've committed the resources to the SVN playground at:
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/pim/akonadi/exchange/
>
> It would be very nice if somebody who has also access to an Exchange
> server could test the resources and provide feedback!
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> PS: As it's not very easy to find out which tags contain which data I
> did a small QT program called "mapibrowser". The tool's source code is
> included at playground but it does not get installed. It allows to browse
> through the mailbox and display all the raw data that libmapi provides
> for a selected message, event, contact and so on.
>
> PPS: Finally here's a short feature list of the calendar plugin:
> * Retrieves basic event data (title, description, location, date,
>   duration, reminder)
> * Sometimes an attendee only shows up by it's exchange login instead
>   of by name and e-mail. I'm still struggling a bit with the awkward way
>   of how libmapi or exchanges provides the attendees.
> * Most (but not all) recurrence patterns are implemented
> * No attachments are downloaded from an event at the moment
>
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