Configure Gnome Evolution with Exchange 2007?

Question

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and I would like to setup Gnome Evolution to read my mail/calendar from our Exchange 2007 server.

Has anyone successfully done this? If so, can you provide any tips or resources that helped you to configure this?

I have tried to use the Gnome Evolution Account Creation wizard, but that hasn't worked for me.

Thanks!

Solution 1

I know there is a new plugin for Evolution in Ubuntu Jaunty called evolution-mapi (install with "apt-get evolution-mapi" from the command line) which is supposed to add native MAPI support to Evolution. I have had it working for mail, but didn't look at calendaring.

Might be worth looking at though.

Solution 2

I've used Evolution back in Ubuntu 8 and you just point it at your Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access URL and it just works fine for mail, contacts, calenders etc.

Comments

[Deb]

From what I understand this requires the Samba 4 codebase to work. If you're not comfortable replacing your Samba with product that isn't even in beta yet, then it isn't for you.

[Psycho Bob]

I was able to use it with a vanilla install of 9.04 and it worked pretty well.

[phirschybar]

Hmmm. I seem to remember having to run it several times to get it to work. But in the end, it worked. (I think in my case I might have been typing something wrong)