Evolution EWS

Hi

Migrated over from Windows 7 - office 2010 to openSUSE 12.1. Got most things working just final bit that’s not working is email client that can work with Microsoft Exchange 2007. I’m trying to get evolution and the ews connector working. In a browser I can get to (once authenticated) https://emailserver.com/ews/exchange.asmx. However when I open evolution and setup using the same host url i get “No Response: Internal Server Error”. It doesn’t ask me to authenticate so not sure whats happening ? where would i find logs for the connection and what its trying to do ?

Thanks for any help

Spencapl

I struggled with this all day.
First you need mapi.
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=mapi&baseproject=openSUSE%3A12.1&lang=en&exclude_debug=true

Second, I noticed for me it had to be Username:
server:

https://company\username@exchange.server.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

I really had to play around with this. I ended up instead of using mapi
in the drop down for server type, I used Exchange Web Services. This
sounds like what you’ll need.

I spent a lot of time googling, and trial and error. Finally in a
Thunderbird post about Exchange and Thunderbird uses imap for Exchange
did I see this suggestion that I gave you.

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 09:56 +0000, spencapl wrote:
> Hi
>
> Migrated over from Windows 7 - office 2010 to openSUSE 12.1. Got most
> things working just final bit that’s not working is email client that
> can work with Microsoft Exchange 2007. I’m trying to get evolution and
> the ews connector working. In a browser I can get to (once
> authenticated) https://emailserver.com/ews/exchange.asmx. However when I
> open evolution and setup using the same host url i get “No Response:
> Internal Server Error”. It doesn’t ask me to authenticate so not sure
> whats happening ? where would i find logs for the connection and what
> its trying to do ?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Spencapl
>
>

Hi

thanks for the reply, that’s helped a little bit but still not working. Our Exchange 2007 server won’t accept NT domain names and only accepts firstname.surname@company.co.uk

So therefore my address reads as this now for the URL

https://firstname.surname@company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx

When i now launch evolution get an error that it can’t find hostname company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk, rather that the internal server error.

I’ve tried

https://company\firstname.surname@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx
https://company.co.uk\firstname.surname@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx

and they just come back with internal error.

Whats interesting is I’ve played with Thunderbird and tried the Lightning calendar add-in and used https://firstname.surname@company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx with username of firstname.surname@company.co.uk and work fine, so i know EWS works and is support from my exchange server.

So to me it just looks like an issue with how the evolution EWS connector handles the URL and doesn’t like the double @ sign ?

Be great if there was some kind of log to see what host-name it is trying ?

thanks for your help.

Spencapl

Since you used tiny url I am unable to see what you did. I also don’t
know what you chose from the drop down menu; MAPI, Exchange Web
Services, or something else. You could run Evolution from the command
line to see whats going on.

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 12:46 +0000, spencapl wrote:
> Hi
>
> thanks for the reply, that’s helped a little bit but still not working.
> Our Exchange 2007 server won’t accept NT domain names and only accepts
> firstname.surname@company.co.uk
>
> So therefore my address reads as this now for the URL
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7k9rzmj
>
> When i now launch evolution get an error that it can’t find hostname
> company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk, rather that the internal server
> error.
>
> I’ve tried
>
> http://tinyurl.com/8659wwu
> http://tinyurl.com/6w9kswr
>
> and they just come back with internal error.
>
> Whats interesting is I’ve played with Thunderbird and tried the
> Lightning calendar add-in and used http://tinyurl.com/7k9rzmj with
> username of firstname.surname@company.co.uk and work fine, so i know EWS
> works and is support from my exchange server.
>
> So to me it just looks like an issue with how the evolution EWS
> connector handles the URL and doesn’t like the double @ sign ?
>
> Be great if there was some kind of log to see what host-name it is
> trying ?
>
> thanks for your help.
>
> Spencapl
>
>
> Jonathan_R;2453582 Wrote:
> > I struggled with this all day.
> > First you need mapi.
> > ‘software.opensuse.org: Search Results’ (http://tinyurl.com/7o557bv)
> >
> > Second, I noticed for me it had to be Username:
> > server:>
> Code:
> --------------------
> > > https://company\username@exchange.server.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
> --------------------
> > >
> >
> > I really had to play around with this. I ended up instead of using
> > mapi
> > in the drop down for server type, I used Exchange Web Services. This
> > sounds like what you’ll need.
> >
> > I spent a lot of time googling, and trial and error. Finally in a
> > Thunderbird post about Exchange and Thunderbird uses imap for
> > Exchange
> > did I see this suggestion that I gave you.
> >
> > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 09:56 +0000, spencapl wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Migrated over from Windows 7 - office 2010 to openSUSE 12.1. Got
> > most
> > > things working just final bit that’s not working is email client
> > that
> > > can work with Microsoft Exchange 2007. I’m trying to get evolution
> > and
> > > the ews connector working. In a browser I can get to (once
> > > authenticated) https://emailserver.com/ews/exchange.asmx. However
> > when I
> > > open evolution and setup using the same host url i get “No
> > Response:
> > > Internal Server Error”. It doesn’t ask me to authenticate so not
> > sure
> > > whats happening ? where would i find logs for the connection and
> > what
> > > its trying to do ?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help
> > >
> > > Spencapl
> > >
> > >
>
>

Hi

Sorry that wasn’t very good of me, I’m using Exchange Web Services as the connection as connecting to Exchange 2007.

So therefore my address reads as this now for the URL

https://firstname.surname@company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx

When i now launch evolution get an error that it can’t find

hostname company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk

, rather that the internal server error.

I’ve tried

https://company\firstname.surname@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx
https://company.co.uk\firstname.surname@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx

and they just come back with internal error.

Whats interesting is I’ve played with Thunderbird and tried the Lightning calendar add-in and used

https://firstname.surname@company.co.uk@outlook.company.co.uk/EWS/Exchange.asmx

with username of firstname.surname@company.co.uk and work fine, so i know EWS works and is support from my exchange server.