Can't get evolution to connect to exchange server

woody2shoes · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Utah

I can't get evolution to connect to the exchange server at work. I have emerged the evolution-exchange. What else do I need to do? When I bring up evolution and try to create the account, I switch the server type to exchange and all it asks for is my username and won't allow me to go to "Next" even after I've put that information in.

snis · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:

Hi,

You should have to give your username AND the address to the Outlook Web Access (OWA) server (https://webmail.company.com/exchange/)
After that you must click the button "Authenticate" before you can go to the next step.

If that doesn't work, then I'm lost.

BTW, you must have emerged:
evolution
evolution-data-server
evolution-exchange

But if you emerged evolution-exchange, then you should have gotten the rest, by dependencies.

woody2shoes · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Utah

Yes, I did get evolution and evolution data server as dependencies.

rdmenotte · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 9

I am getting the same problem...

If you type in your username under the exchange tab, then select a different server type, then select the exchange type again, your username will be there and allow you to go forward, but this is moot because nothing works past this point.

Anyone have this working?

rdmenotte · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 9

I just got it working... here is how:

1. make sure you have use flags ldab and kerberos
2. emerge evolution-data-server
3. emerge evolution-exchange
4. emerge evolution

It worked as stated above by snis

woody2shoes · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Utah

So, it's an order of emerge issue? I'll try it out. . .

rdmenotte · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 9

Pretty much... the other packages have to be emerged with the required use flags before.

tjbrosnan · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

I also had the same problem as above so after updating my use flags and re-emerging I found that i had to go into edit->plugins and enable Exchange Operations.

woody2shoes · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Utah

Cool, I re-emerged everything and now it seems to work, except that I can't send mail, I can only recieve it.

Any ideas?

isaachenry · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

rdmenotte actually meant ldap instead of ldab, in case anyone didn't catch that.

andrewwalker27 · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 493

I'm having a similar problem with the global address book. I get 'error loading address book' when I try to use it.
If I set up an account from scratch, nothing works. I had a working backup from Ubuntu which I restored under Gentoo and everything worked correctly except the global address book which was ok previously. I've got exchange in my make.conf and I've installed in the order suggested, the strange thing is that even if I delete the .evolution directory it still seems to retain info about my account!
Where is evolution storing this info?

das bletch · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2009 Posts: 42 Location: oakland

I dont think its a gentoo-specific issue, but rather what I encountered. When configuring your email accout in evolution, instaed ot the domain, try putting in the ip address and play around with it. I found some Red hat docs back when I was setting this up and i managed to get it to work after a bit of fiddling. the key was the ip address though, plus "/<some directory".

wish i could be more specific, but it worked for me.