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[Myles Hathcock <myles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1) It does, but does a relatively shoddy job of staying organized,
and is heavily tied to the GObject system. This is generally a decent
design, but we have elected (in the prevalence of Qt) to design the
exchange backend using C++ and the new features introduced in TR 2011.
It will, however, not use any Qt libraries until it is ready to be tied
to the uPhone UI. 

2) It's not a small task at all, however we love the
uPhone, and its worth it to us to invest the time and effort into an
enterprise quality exchange client. 

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MYLES HATHCOCK 

Co-Founder /
Chief of Development 

Veridian Enterprises, LLC


myles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

  

On 2013-02-18 11:42, Bruno Girin
wrote: 

> On 18/02/13 17:15, Myles Hathcock wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ubuntu
Phone Devs, I'm investigating the market for exchange / activesync
support in the uPhone email application. As far as I've been able to
see, there are currently no plans to support these protocols, nor are
there easily portable open libraries.
> 
> Evolution has Exchange
support [1] in the evolution-exchange package
> [2]. It doesn't seem to
be available in Quantal and I don't know how
> good it is. Could some of
it be leveraged?
> 
>> I would very much like to see the uPhone succeed
on a large scale, and I think at least providing corporate email access
to owners of this phone would help a lot. Assuming it has not been done
yet, I will be implementing the EAS protocol and adding it as a plug in
to the core email application (and also as a Thunderbird plugin
eventually).
> 
> I agree with that thought but it doesn't seem like a
small task!
> 
> Bruno
> 
> [1]
http://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.1/exchange-configure.html.en
[1]
> [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/evolution-exchange [2]



Links:
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[1]
http://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.1/exchange-configure.html.en
[2]
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/evolution-exchange