Archive for March, 2010

Mailnews Exchange Support: First Folder Discovery

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

I set a goal for myself a few weeks ago to perform a single vertical slice through my Mailnews Exchange Support project, focusing on displaying Microsoft Exchange folders in the Thunderbird folderpane. I have now filled in the missing glue from the architecture in my last post, and have my ...

Mailnews Exchange Support: the Ews Native layer

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

In the last week, I realized that my Exchange integration project needed another layer in the architecture. Previously, I have discussed a layer that does SOAP calls, and a second layer that extends Mozilla mailnews objects. (Let me call the Mozilla-specific world of mailnews objects MMO "Mozilla mailnews objects" for ...

Mailnews Exchange Support: basic mail infrastructure

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

This post is intended mostly as a status update on my effort to add Microsoft Exchange Server support to the Mozilla mailnews products, including Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. In my last report, I was testing and updating the old Mozilla SOAP framework for use in communicating with Exchange Web Services (EWS). Using ...