On Thu, 01 Aug 2019, Aron Xu wrote: Hi, > > > evolution-ews has been removed from buster due to a vulerabilitly > > > shortly before release. I see that a fixed version is available in > > > testing[1] . Could it be rebuilt for buster and uploaded? > > > > Someone with access to a Microsoft Exchange server (perhaps you?) would > > have to test and maintain this backport. > > > > As you can see from events around the buster release, the Debian GNOME > > team is having trouble keeping up with this package - the rest of GNOME > > takes up as much time as we have, and most of us probably don't have > > access to an Exchange server. > > > > > Without evolution-ews, Evolution has no MS Exchange connectivity, which > > > is what Evolution is supposedly about. > > > > Evolution is not "about" MS Exchange connectivity: it's designed to > > work with standard protocols like IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV. If Exchange > > connectivity was vitally important then it wouldn't be a separate, > > optional package. > > > > IIRC evolution is the only solution to Exchange connectivity on Linux > platforms, even if I don't use it myself I have people around me > require it to stay on Debian. I would suggest Debian GNOME people to > find a chance to make that support available in buster-backports so > that an upgrade path from stretch could be warrented for ordinary > users. There is also davmail, which acts as a proxy between OWA (the 'official' api for exchange) and standard protocols like smtp/imap/caldav. I do use it as an interface for several customers and mutt/thunderbird or even as a transport between postfix and owa. Alex
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