Openchange and last Samba releases ?

[Kees van Vloten]

On 14-05-2024 09:15, Rowland Penny via samba-technical wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2024 19:42:34 +0200
> Andreas Schneider via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 13 May 2024 16:38:51 GMT+2 CpServiceSPb via
>> samba-technical wrote:
>>> Was anybody successful in building of Openchange with the latest
>>> Samba versions ?
>>> If yes, was it a git Openchage version or some customized/tuned one
>>> ? And what was the Samba version ?
>> Fedora and CentOS Stream are still building openchange:
>>
>> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openchange
>>
>>
> I have to ask, why ?
> As far as I can see, the openchange code hasn't been updated for about
> 9 years. the openchange.org webpage is a holding page. To me, this
> means that the openchange project (something that never reached
> production quality) is dead.
>
> If someone wants to pick up the openchange project and revitalise it,
> then great, but it will not be easy, Samba has vastly changed since
> openchange was last updated and I feel that a lot of the openchange
> code will need rewriting to bring it up to date.
>
> Rowland
>   

If you want to use MS protocols such as mapi, it may be a good idea to 
see if Grommunio suits your needs.

It is open source and there is an active development team. And it from 
the docs I understood that it integrates with Samba, but I have not 
tested Grommunio myself yet.

- Kees.