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

[Shaheed Haque]

On 14 April 2013 17:58, Alf B. Rustad <alf at mykolab.com> wrote:
> On 14.04.2013 13:26, Shaheed Haque wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alf,
>>
>> I am still around, and willing to help out as time permits...feel free
>> to contact me offline.
>
> Glad to hear!
>
>> 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.
>
> Too bad. I may of course have the same issue, will try to find out this
> week, and report back. In any case, it has to be solvable somehow. Do you
> know if there are some certificates involved? Maybe somebody on this list
> has some ideas?

It worked fine for me until we upgraded to Exchange/Outlook 2010. I
poked around for a while, but this area seems so full of options that
I decided I didn't have the time to become an expert (!!!). I have
probably forgotten most of what I knew, so I'll try to revive my build
setup to support you.

>> This is the status as I recall it...
>
>
> Thanks, it seems very impressive to me, so it would bring me a whole lot
> closer to a fully functional linux setup at work.

I'm pretty pleased with it, so I am glad you like it. Architecturally,
the missing piece is writes, but since we have SMTP for mail, and the
addressbook part of Contacts is readonly, that really leaves personal
addresses and calendar stuff unaccounted for. It might be that all
three are perfectly tractable using Openchange and or WS, I just never
got to that point.

It always seemed to me that with a bit of effort we'd be in a position
to crack the problem - and that would be a real milestone for OSS.

>> 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?
>
> It may be my bad experiences with the owa interface in Evolution (and
> Firefox for that matter), so it may be irrational. Still, I really do not
> have much faith in using the web-interface API. I imagine the standard API's
> Outlook use should be quite stable (something I do not trust owa to be).
> Even more importantly, I expect Microsoft to provide the protocol spec to
> Openchange if they change it. For owa, well it does not even follow
> web-standards, and we are talking freaking 2013 here. Why does it look
> crippled in any other web-browser than ie? Moreover its performance is
> abysmal to the point of useless for me. I would love to have activesync
> supported in kdepim though, as it would give a way to sync with Exchange
> outside of work without needing Android's apps.
>
> Cheers,
> Alf
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