Bug 66023

Subject: Re: [Kopete-devel]  New: connections to internal IM servers

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 13:19, wjlonien@gmx.net wrote:
> I couldn't point it to our in-house Exchange server tho.

Exchange doesn't use the MSN protocol, it uses RVP, and we have no protocol 
for that yet, sorry :(

Like it has been said, our msn protocol is for MSN Messager. and there is only one real server.

This has been requested by several people, so I'd like to keep it open as a wishlist item to direct people to.

Created attachment 3620 [details]
Source code providing RVP (Exchange) protocol support

I have attached to this bug report source code that interfaces
between an Exchange server and gaim.  It can hopefully give
the kopete developers a quick startup to enhance kopete
with the RVP support.  The code can't just be integrated right
away, it can however serve as reference to the protocol.

I hope that you like this gift.

I really wonder why Bugzilla drops the filename, but for those who want to try it out, the format is .tar.bz2, so I assume the filename was rvp.tar.bz2.

I took a quick look at this code a couple of months ago when Richard sent it to me in private mail, and it really needs adjustments to fit with Kopete's API, and (at least back then) it used a lot of insecure strcpy and related calls. As a reference protocol it's a good start though, the code is fairly small and thus rather easy to follow.

The bad news is that my company's Exchange 2000 server now runs Exchange 2003, which no longer has IM built in. Therefore I can no longer test or write a plugin for RVP. :(

Martijn

Ok;

I also learned that Exchg2k3 doesn't have this anymore, so let's close this...

Kind regards,
wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien

On May 11, 2004 09:00 am, Chris Lord wrote:
> ------- I really wasn't expecting anything, just wanted to be helpful - I
> did think it was odd, but seeing as the mail asked me to update all my
> bug-reports and linked me to this, I thought I may as well comply. Sorry if
> I've caused any inconvenience, I'll know better in the future

Stefan ( and everyone )

I have been seeing this all over bugs.kde.org... people logging in everywhere 
and adding comments like "bug still exists".  Its a result of this email 
below.

 I don't know who decided this was a good idea, but I think it had to 
be made *much* more clear that they don't need to post comments that the bug 
still exists, only close bugs that are fixed - it has certianly backfired in 
its present form.

Point is, don't flip out at users posting thse comments, because basically, 
they were told to.

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For reference I add this link:
http://www.waider.ie/hacks/workshop/c/rvp/
(it's a project that is based on the same code, that is attached
to this bug report).