[Evolution] Evolution and Exchange

[Peter Robinson]

I'm using evolution on FC4 connecting to exchange with no major
problems. I just used the Create new mail account dialog from within
preferences to setup the account and it works fine.

You also need to make sure you can access Outlook Web Mail from the
machine your using as that is what it uses to talk to the exchange
server.

Can  you try plain http and see if that work?

Pete

On 7/13/05, Farber, Saul (ENV) <Saul.Farber at state.ma.us> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm having some trouble connecting to exchange via the
> evolution-connector.  Here are the symptoms...any ideas?
> 
> 
> Software versions:
> Fedora Core 4, with "testing" updates
> 
> [sfarber at localhost ~]$ rpm -q -a |grep evolution
> evolution-data-server-devel-1.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-webcal-2.2.1-1.fc4
> evolution-connector-2.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-data-server-1.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-devel-2.2.3-1.fc4
> evolution-2.2.3-1.fc4
> 
> 
> 
> I then run ximian-connector-setup-2.2 to try to create my exchange
> account.  It lets me enter the OWA url (which I can verify with 'wget
> --http-user --http-passwd' works just fine and isn't a redirect).  My
> OWA
> url is of the form:
> 
> https://<server>/exchange/<email-address-prefix>
> 
> I enter this URL, and then enter my login as:
> 
> DOMAIN\username (note that my username is different than my
> email-address-prefix)
> 
> I get the error message "Could not authenticate to the Exchange server.
> Make sure the username and password are correct and try again."
> 
> In addition, I get the following libsoup critical error on stdout.
> Nothing in any syslogs.
> 
> [sfarber at localhost ~]$ ximian-connector-setup-2.2
> 
> (ximian-connector-setup-2.2:11906): libsoup-CRITICAL **:
> soup_connection_send_request: assertion `conn->priv->socket != NULL'
> failed
> 
> 
> There seem to be a number of both fedora and gnome bugs surrounding this
> issue (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302183 cheif among
> them?)
> but I'm not totally sure they're applicable to me.
> 
> 
> If it's any help, it's just regular old http-basic authentication on
> OWA,
> over HTTPS.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm comfortable building from source if that's
> necessary...anything to get rid of this other windows box under my desk!
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> --saul
> 
> 
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