Re: Ximian Connector under GPL
Helge Hess <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On May 31, 2004, at 8:27, Dan wrote: > > Yes, but the Exchange Connector also works with OGo ZideStore! Only > the >> 1.4 release introduced some changes which broke the ZideStore support >> (1.2 worked just fine). > > is meaning of previous sentence close to: > Ximian Exchange connector is a connector Exchange, > Outlook is a client for Exchange -> Outlook can be used as client for > Zidestore (??) Hm, no? Ximian Exchange connector is a connector Exchange, ZideStore implements required parts of the Exchange protocol -> Evolution can be used as a client for ZideStore. BUT, since ZideStore only implements a subset of the Exchange protocol, and 1.4 uses a slightly different one than 1.2, it currently doesn't work for Connector 1.4 and needs (probably small) adjustments in the implemented subset. Outlook uses a completely different (a proprietary, binary) protocol to talk with Exchange -> the specific Outlook/Exchange combination has nothing to do with OGo nor with Exchange connector. Some of the relevant ASCII art (doesn't cover Evo though): Exchange: /---------\ /-------------\ /----------\ | Outlook | <-> | ExConnector | <-> Net MAPI <-> | Exchange | \---------/ \-------------/ \----------/ OGo/SKYRiX: /---------\ /----------\ /------------\ | Outlook | <-> | ZideLook | <------> WebDAV <-> | OGo/SKYRiX | \---------/ \----------/ \------------/ Exchange: OpenGroupware.org/SKYRiX /--------------------\ /--------------\ | Outlook | | Outlook | Client |--------------------| |--------------| |----\ MAPI API /----| |-\ MAPI API /-| API |--------------------| |--------------| | Exchange Connector | | ZideLook | Connector |--------------------| |--------------| |--\ Network MAPI /--| |--\ WebDAV /--| Network Transport |--------------------| |--------------| | Exchange Server | | ZideStore | Server \--------------------/ \--------------/ Greets, Helge -- http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/helge/ OpenGroupware.org -- OpenGroupware.org Discussion [email protected] http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss