See the comment below from Thomas]. The real test will be how complete and robust the MAPI emulation is in practice, I'll let you know once I've put it through its paces. Email required Address never made public. Personally the most interesting part is the proxy server , which should let me write a component that sits between the real Exchange server and all the Outlook clients, pulling out information I want like attachments, but passing on the rest of the work to Exchange. The actual transport technology behind email servers is a well-understood problem, and if you look at the history of Samba you can see what happens when you free up a core Windows service to talk to any back-end. Notify me of new posts via email.
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OpenMapi is not focused on the binary network protocol, and more on the actual programming interface offered by MAPI.
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Notify me of new comments via email. The barrier started to crack as companies like PostPath opnmapi offering their own emulations, and Microsoft themselves released documentation on the protocol.
The real test will be how complete and robust the MAPI emulation is in practice, I'll ipenmapi you know once I've put it through its paces. Now this is in the wild, it's possible to develop your own server that looks exactly like Exchange to the outside world!

Personally the most interesting part is the proxy serverwhich should let me write a component that sits between the real Exchange server and all the Outlook clients, pulling out information I want like attachments, but passing on the rest of the work to Exchange.
Email required Address never made public. See the comment below from Thomas]. I'm hoping this will lead to a lot more alternatives to Exchange popping up, it should dramatically lower the barrier to entry.
OpenMapi makes an Exchange-killer possible
You are commenting using your Twitter account. See the comment below from Thomas] Share this: Scott Chaslin just alerted me to the launch of OpenMapi. You are commenting using your WordPress.

Notify me of new posts via email. Potentially, you could deploy a new solution silently, without all the Outlook clients even knowing anything has changed.
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This could be the first step in turning enterprise mail servers into a commodity. Unlike open standards like IMAP, it deals with the full spectrum of tasks, appointments and contacts, not just mail messages.
OpenMapi: Free Libraries For Microsoft's Mail-I » Linux Magazine
You are commenting using your Google account. This was a big barrier to adoption, since it means openmapo and maintaining all those client installations.
The actual transport technology behind email servers is a well-understood problem, and if you look at the history of Samba you can see what happens when you free up a core Windows service to talk to any back-end.
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