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Bug 404006 - Attachments of tasks stored in an exchange server are not saved
Attachments of tasks stored in an exchange server are not saved
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Evolution Exchange
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Connector
3.2.x
Other Linux
: High major
: ---
Assigned To: Connector Maintainer
Ximian Connector QA
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-03 17:59 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2013-07-23 14:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2



Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-02-03 17:59:21 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/70066

"Binary package hint: evolution

Hello,

I just noticed that if you add an attachment to a task which is stored in an exchange server, the attachment is not stored permanently. When you later open the task the attachment simply is not there any more.

Best regards,
Dominik"
Comment 1 Per 2007-02-24 02:30:07 UTC
Sounds like the same issue as in this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394473
Comment 2 Dominik Kuropka 2007-10-01 14:27:08 UTC
Unfortunatelly this is still an issue with Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Beta :-(
Comment 3 Joachim Breitner 2009-04-14 08:58:56 UTC
I’m also hit by this. Also, editing a task will silently remove any existing attachment, which leads to data loss, so this is a rather severe issue and blocker for the deployment of Evolution in an Exchange shop.
Comment 4 Joachim Breitner 2009-04-14 08:59:22 UTC
Oh, and I doubt it’s related to #394473.
Comment 5 Akhil Laddha 2009-05-28 06:57:39 UTC
I just tried with master (2.27.2). Problem still seems to be there. I was able to see only one attachment though i had saved task with three attachments. I cross checked in owa and it showed all the attachments. 

With 2.24.1.1 , problem was even worse. It didn't show my any attachment. 
Comment 6 Akhil Laddha 2011-10-17 07:58:27 UTC
With Evolution 3.2.0, i see an error while trying to save task with attachment

Could not save attachments, Error moving files, no such file or directory

and critical warning on e-calendar-factory

e-cal-backend-exchange-CRITICAL **: e_cal_backend_exchange_in_cache: assertion `cbex->priv->cache_unseen != NULL' failed
Comment 7 André Klapper 2012-09-20 14:49:14 UTC
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".
Comment 8 André Klapper 2013-07-23 14:29:17 UTC
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.