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  From: Matthew Western <mwestern@affairs.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:17:24 +1030

RE: Evolution 0.99

Hi People,
Just letting you know I've got LDAP working off our exchange servers, you
have to change the Search Scope to 'Sub' under Advanced and away it goes...
so the only thing not working now is changing the views on the IMAP
folders....
I've sent mail to ximian and to the evolution mailing list so i'll let you
know how i go.
Matthew


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Western [mailto:mwestern@affairs.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:02 PM
To: 'Andrew Reid'; 'Matthew Western'
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: RE: Evolution 0.99


I don't think Outlook2000 (or 98 or 97 or XP or whatever) uses LDAP when i
talkes to the folders it's uses it's propriety talker.

Outlook Express is what i'm using to get LDAP from our exchange server.
This works.
Outlook Express also gets stuff from ldap.bigfoot.com
Outlook Express gets IMAP stuff fine.

Evolution gets nothing from exchange server no matter what i do.
Evolution get stuff from ldap.bigfoot.com (faster than outlook express i
might add)
Evolution gets IMAP from exchange server fine, *BUT* all the folders that i
subscribe to appear as mail folders and i can't figure out how to change the
view.  If i could change the view, yes i would say it's almost useable apart
from no directory.  But obviously if you knew that everyone in your
organization had a standard email address, eg firstinitial
lastname@dofus.com you could just mail to them no probs...

Now,  I had a look at freshmeat and searched for LDAP but there are heaps
there.  anyone suggest the best one to use?

Matthew




-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Reid [mailto:andrew.reid@plug.cx]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:15 PM
To: Matthew Western
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: Re: Evolution 0.99


On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:17:37AM +1030, Matthew Western wrote:

> OK, back to the evolution thing......   i just tried changing to bigfoot
and
> it works no probs and it's fast too....

OK, that seems to indicate that Evolution was linked against the LDAP
libraries.

> changed back to our server and like Andrew said, doesn't seem to try to do
> anything useful.  i think it's a case of Microsoft makes their products
work
> with just their products but when i try anything else, it doesn't work...
> it says linux, just return a pile of <deleted>  that's why their products
> are so bloated it's all the extra garble code to block everyone elses
> products....  useless dorks...

Hrm. Perhaps you should try with a standalone LDAP client. I found a
nice Java one a few months ago, but I can't remember where I put
it. Have a look on http://freshmeat.net/ for some leads on LDAP
clients.

D'you know if Outlook uses LDAP for accessing the contacts database
etc, or its own special protocol?

If Outlook does use LDAP when talking to a local Exchange server, then
we can assumwe that the prototol itself is working, at least to
Microsoft's standards.

IF Outlook doesn't use LDAP when talking to a local Exchange server,
and after multiple failures using different standalone LDAP clients,
perhaps we have to look at Exchange configuration.

> this from Andrew means nothing to me so would you care to explain what it
> does?

'ldd' lists dynamic object dependencies. For examle, Evolution
requires the libgtk, libpng, libgnome and a whole list of others
(about 54 in total).

> i did a man ldd and it shows libraries..  nice.  i'm not sure what i'm
> supposed to be looking for...

I wanted to know wheather or not Evolution had been linked against the
OpenLDAP libraries, in the hope of ascertaining wheather or not
Evolution was compiled with LDAP support.

> I might also add that i didn't try configure evolution, i just installed
the
> ye old .RPM file from ftp.ximian.com or wherever...

Ah, OK. I think the standard Ximian package comes with LDAP support of
some kind.

   - andrew

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