GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 338856
ximian-connector-setup - still needed?
Last modified: 2013-07-23 14:30:15 UTC
Given the new accounts wizard in evolution, is ximian-connector-setup still needed? It doesn't seem to get called from the user interface, nor given the current name very obvious that you can run it from the commandline. Should it either be removed, or renamed to something like evolution-exchange-setup? [ideally the first option would be better I think].
Yeah, all the functionalities present in the command line tool have been merged into the evolution account setup framework. It does make sense to stop shipping this tool for further releases now.
Yes we still need it. x-c-s has autoconfiguration support, which is helpful in case of mass deployment. Until, we make our plugins to support autoconfiguration (where OWA URL, GC server are read from a configuration file) we need to rename x-c-s and keep it.
*** Bug 341803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The "evolution-exchange" package only supports Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers. Newer versions such as Exchange 2007 and 2010 are not supported by "evolution-exchange". It is required to use the package "evolution-ews" (or to some extend "evolution-mapi") for newer version fo Exchange servers. If the problem/request described in this report still happens with a recent version of "evolution-ews" or "evolution-mapi", please add a comment to this report (and update the "product" setting accordingly if possible). There are currently no plans to continue the development of the package "evolution-exchange", so this report will soon be closed as WONTFIX. Thanks for your understanding and sorry that the reported problem was not solved in time in the package "evolution-exchange".
evolution-exchange only supports the older Microsoft Exchange server versions 2000 and 2003. The last stable release of evolution-exchange was 3.4.4 which took place a year ago. evolution-exchange is now deprecated and not under active development anymore. It is unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. Also feel free to reopen this ticket and change the "Product" field accordingly if the reported issue still happens with a recent version (newer than version 3.6) of one of those Exchange backends that are still supported. Please see https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.8/exchange-connectors-overview.html for more information on available backends.