[Kolab-devel] Just wondering...

[Nathan Toone]

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OK - so I had a weird idea yesterday, and I'd like to propose it and see if 
it's even possible (before I spend too much time trying to see if I can do 
it...)

Background (bear with me - it *is* relevent to kolab...):

Novell just released the code for their ximian connector.  This allowed 
evolution to connect to an exchange server.  Now that there is access to that 
code, it would probably be easy to find out how an exchange server...

Which leads to my idea:

Would it be possible to create a module that "acts" as if it were an exchange 
server?  I would listen on all the same ports, give the same responses, 
etc...and then translate the calls to the "pseudo-exchange" to standard kolab 
(imap, webdav, etc) commands?  Then you wouldn't have to have a plugin to get 
outlook to work with kolab - you would just have to point it to the kolab 
server as if it were an exchange server...

I know nothing about exchange....so I don't even know if this is 
possible...but it sounds like it would be a pretty useful addon.

- -Nathan
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