[Kroupware] MAPI and bynari connector

[Andreas Jellinghaus]

Hi Kevin,

the bynari connector does two things:
 - it provides imap access. for outlook xp users this is nearly useless,
   since outlook xp does imap itself. ("nearly" because bynari allowes
   managing permissions, which outlooks imap implementation does not).

   however with outlook 98 and 2k you have the problem of either using
   the build in imap (in internet mail only mode) or no imap access
   (in corporate / groupware mode).

   the bynari connector adds imap capabilities to the 
   corporate/groupware mode, which is quite important, since
   most users don't want to leave the corporate / groupware mode.

 - bynari connector allows to store non mail items such as calendar
   entries on the imap server. this is a proprietory implementation
   using specialy formated emails. as i understand it, kroupware tries
   to reimplement this.

I agree with you: writing an open source mapi implementation would be
great. this way we could store non-mail items in an CAL server, which
has a lot more future then the proprietary format of bynari (in my
opinion at least).

It would also allow to fix bugs - bynari has a bug with calendar on imap
and freebusy time publishing, resulting in outlook publishing not all
appointments in a freebusy file.

but so far nobody knows windows well enough or wants to write such a
mapi implementation. feel free to volunteer! :-)

Regards, Andreas