[Kroupware] Re: client compatibility

[Kervin L. Pierre]

Henning Holtschneider wrote:
> Programming a MAPI provider is no easy task, but Kervin L. Pierre has
> started a project on Sourceforge (http://otlkcon.sourceforge.net/) in
> November. There has been no (visible) progress since then but
> considering Kervin's message to this list, he won't start working on it
> until about now ;-)
>

Working on it :)

I'm working on the MAPI Message Store Provider.  Goal of having an alpha 
version of that code by halfway through February.  Hopefully this date 
won't slip, it's a lot of code, but I've been giving it a much of my 
time as well.  So we'll see.

The MAPI Message Store Provider is suppose to be the largest MAPI 
service provider needed.  Our goal is to work on the MAPI Transport 
Provider next.  Another developer has been looking into it, but he 
hasn't announced he's exact plans as yet.

My goal is to first decouple outlook from exchange, just as Lotus, 
Oracle, Bynari has done.  In fact in the exact same fashion, by 
providing an alternate MAPI Message Store and Transport Provider.

Longer term goals include translating outlook calendar properties to 
IETF protocol data eg. xCal/IMAP, and/or CAP.  But that's after the 
simpliest case of storing MAPI properties as-is as been stablizied.

--Kervin