Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Exchange 2007 (aka 5.5) on Fedora - port 135

["Valent Turkovic" <valent turkovic gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Johnny Jacob <jjohnny novell com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:48 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 15:55 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > I tracked the issue and got a confirmation on irc that the port 135
> > > needs to be opened on corporate firewall in order for mapi-provider to
> > > work. I thought that ports 80 and 443 were enough because older
> > > evolution-exchange provider worked like that, and I saw no mention of
> > > this on official FAQ.
>
> If you have access to the server then there are several guides online on
> how to configure exchange / outlook under a firewall.
>
> Would be nice if this could be tested with the provider :)
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
> > The Evolution Exchange connector uses the Exchange Open Web Access (OWA)
> > interface, which is essentially the Exchange webmail interface, to
> > contact Exchange.  Thus, to use the connector you need to have the Web
> > ports open (80 and 443, for HTTP and HTTPS respectively).
> >
> > However, the new mapi-provider backend talks to the server using
> > Microsoft MAPI protocol, which is the same protocol that Outlook uses to
> > talk to Exchange.  This protocol uses different ports, of course, since
> > it's a different protocol.

Before my company switched to new Exchange 2007 I could read email
from wherever I was (over public facing owa through Evolution Exchange
Connector), and if I understand you now this is not possible now
because ports that are needed to do the communication are usually
blocked by corporate firewall.

Ok, I can use my email via Evolution now when I'm inside the company's
LAN but before I had been spoiled by accessing my email from home or
from anywhere else. Is there some solution to this?

Cheers,
Valent.


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