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Exchange support in 3.5?
by mitya on Sunday 13/Nov/2005, @01:39

Hi, everyone!

KDE 3.5 RC1 is definitely great news.

I do have a question though. Does anyone knows what happened to MS Exchange support in Kontact? It was on KDE 3.5 features plan about a month ago and than it strangely dissappeared from there. I am pretty sure there are a lot of people like me out there, who require not only KOrganizer Exchange support(which is great, of course) but KMail Exchange support as well. Having full email support, will bring KDE one huge step closer to corporate desktop world, which currently dominated by Gnome, largely because of Evolution and its' support for MS Exchange.
Me, I am forced to keep Evolution and everything it requires (a LOT of Gnome-specific libraries!), due to lack of that Exchange support in Kontact.

P.S. Yes I know about the IMAP option, and no, the IT Manager will not open it just so I can use Kontact with it. Frankly, I wouldn't do that either, if I was him. That only adds more headache to the busy work schedule. :)

Thanks in advance for any useful info!

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Re: Exchange support in 3.5?
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday 13/Nov/2005, @05:54

> KOrganizer Exchange support(which is great, of course)

Even that doesn't seem to work for me. Some shonk with SSL, i presume.

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Re: Exchange support in 3.5?
by Thiago Macieira on Sunday 13/Nov/2005, @08:33

Exchange support was buggy and didn't work, so it was removed.

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Re: Exchange support in 3.5?
by mitya on Tuesday 15/Nov/2005, @01:20

Thanks for the reply!

Any plans for adding it in the future, hopefully before kde 4?

Perhaps there is a patch I can use to try it out on my system? That will be great to see it with my own eyes.

Thank you!

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Re: Exchange support in 3.5?
by mmHg on Monday 09/Jan/2006, @10:47

Bummer... Even evolution doesn't meet my needs. I'm still trying to find a decent linux email client that supports MULTIPLE exchange accounts. IMAP isn't an option for me. Hopefully KMail can do this when they finally get around to implementing exchange. I can always dream.........

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