ActiveSync provides full exchange compatibility on all platforms except Linux where one has to resort to either clumsy davmail to get the same functionality. An akonadi resource that offers mail, contacts and calendar via ActiveSync makes kontact (and KDE) that much more attractive to use in work environments (such as mine). ActiveSync functionality is open-source (for example davmail) so for the brilliant KDE devs it should be a piece-of-cake to implement. We've come a really long way as far as desktop functionality goes in KDE. Maybe its time MS products compatibility is taken up so KDE can be used for more than just development or casual use. Thank you.
seconded. Right now I'm in the process of switching my mail/calendar/addressbook to thunderbird with lightning and the SOGO connector, because guess what, my employer uses exchange. And I'd rather use one mail app, not two.
and speaking of thunderbird, there are two not all that large addons, that let TB access all that is under exchange...
So, does tb use IMAP for exchange emails or true exchange interrace a la achieve sync? If its the latter, I might migrate to it too - much as I hate to leave kontact. Full interactivity with Microsoft protocols will help KDE on windows too .... but anyway. Sent from my Nexus 4 On 31/05/2013 4:52 AM, "Mathias Homann" <Mathias.Homann@opensuse.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310437 > > --- Comment #2 from Mathias Homann <Mathias.Homann@opensuse.org> --- > and speaking of thunderbird, there are two not all that large addons, that > let > TB access all that is under exchange... > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. >
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Not sure if Exchange support via "ActiveSync" is the same as supporting Exchange via "MAPI" protocol. If it is, this is a duplicate of bug 227672 / bug 78629.
no, "ActiveSync" and "MAPI" are not the same. Mapi only lets you access email on an exchange server, ActiveSync actually synchronises mail, calendar, addressbook and tasklist between your device and the exchange server. For a reference implementation see the activesync part in android.
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The ActiveSync protocol is covered by Microsoft patents. However, are anybody aware which part of the protocol covered by patents? In the android implementation there is a disclaimer: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Exchange/+/master/src/com/android/exchange/patent_disclaimer.txt As well of the Evolution ActiveSync module: https://github.com/GNOME/evolution-activesync/blob/master/README But none states exactly what is covered by the patents, so pretty hard to do a patent-free implementation.
We now have a native EWS resource. It's not perfect, but I think it's already better than nothing :)