Re: Akonadi resource for Microsoft Exchange - initial release

Daniel Vrátil <[email protected]> Mon, 02 May 2016 08:15:21 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.pim,gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization	KDE
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On Sunday, May 1, 2016 10:14:22 PM CEST Krzysztof Nowicki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After 6 months of development the day has come to publish the initial
> release (0.8.0) of the Akonadi resource for Microsoft Exchange Web Services
> (EWS).

Congratulations on the release and thanks for your hard work! Looking forward 
to those PIM patches ;-))

CCing kdepim-users ml to spread the happiness (this time with correct email)

Dan

> 
> This resource provides the ability to connect to a Microsoft Exchange
> account using its native protocol (the same as used by Microsoft Outlook).
> This way it should be possible (in future) to expose most of Exchange
> features to KDE PIM users.
> 
> The initial release focuses on full e-mail support. It is possible to
> receive and send e-mail through Exchange (yes, by default Exchange doesn't
> allow e-mail to be sent over SMTP - Microsoft Outlook uses EWS to send
> mail). Full mailbox management is possible.
> 
> One notable feature is server-side tag support. Thanks to Exchange support
> for custom properties it is possible to store Akonadi tags along with full
> metadata in Exchange.
> 
> Non-mail features are either partially or not supported. Calendar and
> personal address book can be viewed, but no modifications are possible.
> Tasks are unsupported.
> 
> Further work will focus on full calendar and tasks support. Aside from that
> I would like to work on KDE PIM itself to make it integrate better with the
> EWS resource (currently there are some workaround introduced that I'd like
> to get rid of). Various assumptions exist in KDE PIM packages that are
> IMAP-centric and will need to be revised a little.
> 
> The project is hosted on GitHub [1]. I have prepared some packages for
> Fedora and Ubuntu (being a Gentoo user I'm not an experienced packager, so
> bare with me ;). Please feel free to try it out.
> 
> Regards
> Chris
> 
> [1] https://github.com/KrissN/akonadi-ews
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