7:43 a.m.
Is there anyone else out there who'd quite like SyncEvolution to be able
to sync to Microsoft Exchange, or is it just me?
This proof of concept script will sync your Outlook calendar into a
directory in your home directory. It's a read-only mirror for now, and
it's just the raw XML files which will need to be interpreted.
It uses Exchange Web Services, not ActiveSync.
Does someone want to try turning it into a real SyncEvolution plugin,
while I look at getting write access to work?
http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/ews-sync.git
git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/ews-sync.git
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dwmw2
5:59 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:43 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
Is there anyone else out there who'd quite like SyncEvolution to
be able
to sync to Microsoft Exchange, or is it just me?
This proof of concept script will sync your Outlook calendar into a
directory in your home directory. It's a read-only mirror for now, and
it's just the raw XML files which will need to be interpreted.
It uses Exchange Web Services, not ActiveSync.
Does someone want to try turning it into a real SyncEvolution plugin,
while I look at getting write access to work?
Any reason you can't/wouldn't use evolution-mapi for this? That would
give all of it.
Peter
6:46 p.m.
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 08:59 +0100, pbrobinson(a)gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:43 PM, David Woodhouse
<dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
> Is there anyone else out there who'd quite like SyncEvolution to be able
> to sync to Microsoft Exchange, or is it just me?
>
> This proof of concept script will sync your Outlook calendar into a
> directory in your home directory. It's a read-only mirror for now, and
> it's just the raw XML files which will need to be interpreted.
>
> It uses Exchange Web Services, not ActiveSync.
>
> Does someone want to try turning it into a real SyncEvolution plugin,
> while I look at getting write access to work?
Any reason you can't/wouldn't use evolution-mapi for this? That would
give all of it.
I've tried evolution-mapi; it doesn't really work well enough for _me_
to use it yet; let alone well enough for me to ship it to users. In
fact, it's currently telling me that my calendar is _empty_.
I *could* work on evolution-mapi, but I don't really want to -- it's
already obsolete. Even with Exchange 2007, Microsoft were saying "Forget
MAPI; move to EWS". As soon as Microsoft no longer care about the 'old'
versions of Outlook, they'll drop MAPI support and we'll be left with
nothing again. I think we should stay ahead of the curve.
Besides, I'm more interested in *sync* right now than I an am online
client. That can come later...
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dwmw2
3:27 a.m.
Hmm,
I never got a direct copy of this email.
On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 22:43 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
Is there anyone else out there who'd quite like SyncEvolution to
be able
to sync to Microsoft Exchange, or is it just me?
Count me in.
This proof of concept script will sync your Outlook calendar into a
directory in your home directory. It's a read-only mirror for now, and
it's just the raw XML files which will need to be interpreted.
It uses Exchange Web Services, not ActiveSync.
Does someone want to try turning it into a real SyncEvolution plugin,
while I look at getting write access to work?
I won't have time for it next week and then I'll be on vacation for a
while. If someone else wants to have a look, that would be good,
otherwise I'll do it myself when I come back.
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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.
2:23 p.m.
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 19:27 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
Hmm,
I never got a direct copy of this email.
I figured you'd notice :)
I won't have time for it next week and then I'll be on
vacation for a
while. If someone else wants to have a look, that would be good,
otherwise I'll do it myself when I come back.
First task is turning the XML calendar items into iCal, of which the
most interesting part is converting the data (recurrence, timezone
stuff, etc.) rather than just parsing the XML.
Presumably we can find existing code for that kind of conversion in
evolution-mapi or somewhere similar?
Here's an example of the XML files the EWS server returns...
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