[Evolution] Connecting to Exchange Server 2003

Victor Warner vwarner@waitrose.com
Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:39:38 +0100


Thank you for your messages

Mario, I tried your suggestions, but they may no difference.

Anders, I tried to follow the thread you linked, but I guest the key 
part is this part of it:

"1.  shutdown Evolution: "evolution --force-shutdown"
2.  shutdown gconfd: "gconftool-2 --shtdown"
2.  edit ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/%gconf.xml
3.  Change [protocol]://[USER]@ to [protocol]://[USER];auth=Plain@
under <source> (and <transport> if your server requires authentication
for sending)
4.  Start evolution (gconfd will restart automatically)"

But do not see anything in the file %gconf.xml which matches 3., 
certainly not auth=Plain@ or auth=Basic etc.

I have reproduced the whole of the %gconf.xml file below.

I am not sure how "Re-create using the "ximian-connector-2-setup" (not 
sure of exact name)" differs from setting up  an account through 
Settings/Tools etc in Evolution.

One fact I did not mention in my original post was that Windows 2003 
Server uses Active Directory. Not sure if this is relevant.

I would really appreciate some further help.

Victor Warner





<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="default_account" mtime="1112364668" type="string">
                <stringvalue>1112364579.6460.3@IBMT22</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="accounts" mtime="1112364668" type="list" 
ltype="string">
        <li type="string">
                <stringvalue>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
&lt;account name=&quot;victorwarner@andersonsolicitors.com&quot; 
uid=&quot;1112364579.6460.3@IBMT22&quot; 
enabled=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;identity&gt;&lt;name&gt;Victor 
Warner&lt;/name&gt;&lt;addr-spec&gt;victorwarner@andersonsolicitors.com&lt;/addr-spec&gt;&lt;reply-to&gt;&lt;/reply-to&gt;&lt;organization&gt;&lt;/organization&gt;&lt;signature 
uid=&quot;&quot;/&gt;&lt;/identity&gt;&lt;source 
save-passwd=&quot;false&quot; keep-on-server=&quot;false&quot; 
auto-check=&quot;false&quot; 
auto-check-timeout=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;url&gt;exchange://victor@152.55.155.200/;pf_server=152.55.155.200;owa_path=/exchange;mailbox=victor;ad_limit=500;ad_server&lt;/url&gt;&lt;/source&gt;&lt;transport 
save-passwd=&quot;false&quot;&gt;&lt;url&gt;exchange://victor@152.55.155.200/;pf_server=152.55.155.200;owa_path=/exchange;mailbox=victor;ad_limit=500;ad_server&lt;/url&gt;&lt;/transport&gt;&lt;drafts-folder&gt;email://local@local/Drafts&lt;/drafts-folder&gt;&lt;sent-folder&gt;email://local@local/Sent&lt;/sent-folder&gt;&lt;auto-cc 
always=&quot;false&quot;&gt;&lt;recipients&gt;&lt;/recipients&gt;&lt;/auto-cc&gt;&lt;auto-bcc 
always=&quot;false&quot;&gt;&lt;recipients&gt;&lt;/recipients&gt;&lt;/auto-bcc&gt;&lt;pgp 
encrypt-to-self=&quot;false&quot; always-trust=&quot;false&quot; 
always-sign=&quot;false&quot; 
no-imip-sign=&quot;false&quot;&gt;&lt;key-id&gt;&lt;/key-id&gt;&lt;/pgp&gt;&lt;smime 
sign-default=&quot;false&quot; encrypt-default=&quot;false&quot; 
encrypt-to-self=&quot;false&quot;&gt;&lt;sign-key-id&gt;&lt;/sign-key-id&gt;&lt;encrypt-key-id&gt;&lt;/encrypt-key-id&gt;&lt;/smime&gt;&lt;/account&gt;
</stringvalue>
        </li>
        </entry>
        <entry name="signatures" mtime="1112364577" type="list" 
ltype="string">
        <li type="string">
                <stringvalue>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
&lt;signature name=&quot;Autogenerated&quot; 
uid=&quot;1111220941.10154.0@IBMT22&quot; auto=&quot;true&quot; 
format=&quot;text/html&quot;/&gt;
</stringvalue>
        </li>
        </entry>
</gconf>