Thread: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
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2009-12-15 , 06:26
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Originally Posted by rjzak View Post
So, is there anyone who is a programmer who has some free time who'd like to help code up a simple GUI for Maemo that checks Exchange for new messages, regardless of Provisioning or any other crap? Then other features could be added later. I'm started on a Python-based solution, starting with weboutlook and my N810. Any takers? It'll be a hackjob, but for some of us, it'll be far better than what Nokia has offered.
If you want to implement something "far better" you need to implement EAS protocol: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...CHG.80%29.aspx

EAS 12.0, 12.1 specs are publicly available and you can start the development right now. You can (technically, not sure about legal consequences) ignore provisioning requests in your code and tell to the server "everything is OK" (something Nokia engineers are not allowed to do).


The current approach if weboutlook module sounds crazy to me:

> weboutlook is a Python module that retrieves full, raw e-mails from Microsoft Outlook Web Access by screen scraping

You have EAS 12.0 and 12.1 specs published. Just take them into use!

The only documentation which community does not have is EAS 2.5 (provided by MS Exchange 2003).
 

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