[Kde-pim] mails download from MS-Exchange server - airsyncDownload

[Shaheed Haque]

Also, I just subscribed to the Fedora list and emailed Rex about the patch.

On 14 April 2013 12:26, Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> wrote:
> Hi Alf,
>
> I am still around, and willing to help out as time permits...feel free
> to contact me offline. FWIW, the main reason I stopped work was
> because work upgraded our Exchange setup and I found I could no longer
> authenticate correctly and so could not make any progress.
>
> This is the status as I recall it...
>
> Calendar
> ========
> The last topic I was working on was getting Calendar exceptions to
> work better (they work in basic cases IIRC), and I ran into some
> Openchange issues:
>
> http://tracker.openchange.org/issues/391
>
> AFAIK, those patches have never been applied. also, I know that some
> chnages have happened in KDEPIm around how to associate the main event
> with its exceptions...I'm not sure what is needed to realign to that.
> Once these two things are resolved, the Calendar should work well.
>
> Contacts
> =======
> Contacts already functions well, but the download takes several hours
> for my 650k+ addressbook. I was contemplating switching to the web
> service API as that seems to have better support for bulk downloads
> using the Offline Address Book functionality.
>
> I note that somebody else seems to have made a start on the Web
> service API on this list recently. The web service API might also make
> it easier to have writes as well as reads working across all three
> areas?
>
> Email
> =====
> Downloads work very nicely. Embedding works generally, and the last
> issue I remember working on was something weird about correctly
> displaying the title of embedded messages.
>
> Thanks, Shaheed
>
>
> On 14 April 2013 11:05, Alf B. Rustad <alf at mykolab.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday, April 14, 2013 01:16:17 AM Daniel Vrátil wrote:
>>>
>>> Resources are all the kdepim-runtime repository, in the /resources folder.
>>>
>>> There is a nice tutorial it the techbase wiki about writing Akonadi
>>> resources:
>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Akonadi/Resources.
>>>
>>> The interface for interaction with Akonadi server is documented here:
>>> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdepimlibs-apidocs/akonadi/html/index.html
>>>
>>> And of course feel free to ask here or on #akonadi IRC channel.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the pointers. I am currently trying to get Exchange going on RHEL
>> 6.4, and I believe the best shot at getting a good solution is the work done
>> by Shaheed Haque in
>> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/pim/akonadi/exchange
>> using native Exchange protocols implemented by the Openchange project. Rex
>> Dieter was kind enough to package the code for RHEL 6.4 along with version
>> 4.10.2 of the kdepim stack, you can follow the dialogue on the packaging of
>> akonadi-exchange in this thread:
>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2013-April/012468.html
>> Right now I have installed the akonadi-exchange pakcage, but there is no
>> resource coming up. Shaheed, if you are still following the mailinglist,
>> then please share some pointers on how to use the plugin. I expect there
>> still is something missing in the packaging, and that a helping eye from a
>> developer familiar with this part of the stack will save time.
>>
>>
>> BTW, huge thanks to the Kolab guys for setting up a groupware server :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alf
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