Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector [LWN.net]

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 11, 2004 23:21 UTC (Tue) by dougm (subscriber, #4615)
Parent article: Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

What I find interesting here is the possibility that, given the source of the client, someone could write a server that emulates some or all of Exchange. That would allow for an open-source server that is capable of the same level of calendar/mail/scheduling integration as Outlook/Exchange (which, I'm sorry to say, still has no peer in the F/OSS world), and talks to both Outlook and Evolution.

Don't know if it's feasible or not, but it would be cool.

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Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 12, 2004 3:31 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

"...someone could write a server that emulates some or all of Exchange. That would allow for an open-source server that is capable of the same level of calendar/mail/scheduling integration as Outlook/Exchange (which, I'm sorry to say, still has no peer in the F/OSS world)"

um... have you looked at scalix, or even suse openexchange server?

OpenExchange / Scalix are Open Source?

Posted May 12, 2004 10:22 UTC (Wed) by jae (guest, #2369) [Link]

After a cursory glance at both openexchange and scalix... I cannot find
they are open source. Care to enlighten me?

Kolab?

Posted May 12, 2004 12:20 UTC (Wed) by ranger (guest, #6415) [Link]

http://www.kolab.org

In conjunction with KDE(-pim), you have complete free software groupware solution.

For people who want to add some proprietary bits, you can get connectors for Outlook.

Evo needs to add support for Kolab ...

Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector

Posted May 13, 2004 13:17 UTC (Thu) by bastiaan (guest, #5170) [Link]

... and talks to both Outlook and Evolution.

Note that Evolution Connector does not use the same wire protocol as Outlook: Outlook communicates with Exchange throught DCE RPC, whereas Connector uses the more transparent WebDAV based Outlook Web Access (OWA) connector.
I don't know if there are any Outlook variants that are OWA enabled, but most aren't. So Connectors source code won't help you in this respect..