The OpenMAPI team has put together a virtual machine (VirtualBox, tested with v3.0.4) designed to enable developers to easily start programming and testing implementations based on OpenMAPI.org.

It contains a setup of the following components:
- OpenMAPI.org NMAPI server (=gateway, IMAP server, backend connect, MAPI Shell)
- VIPcom Conversations backend
- Thunderbird E-Mail client
- Mono runtime environment
- Monodevelop IDE

Today VIPcom released the source code of its MAPI store Conversations. The full source can be found in OpenMapi's git repository at git.openmapi.org.
For more information about Conversations please read the initial announcement.

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Today VIPcom, a leading provider of platform-independent communication and groupware solutions, announced Conversations, the open source edition of its teamXchange product which provides an alternative to Microsoft Exchange.

"By releasing the source code of Conversations under the AGPL we enter a new era in groupware development.", Klaus Frese, CEO of VIPcom GmbH explains.

"We are providing open access to our implementation of MAPI, while our users also gain the possibility of contributing to the development of Conversations.

There is a new channel #openmapi on irc.freenode.net. Feel free to join.

As a side-effect I have coded an IRC2Jabber-bridge in C#. You can get the code from here: http://svn.openmapi.org/svn/openmapi/trunk/irc2jabber/src/

There have been a few interesting changes to the NMapi recently. Here
is a quick summary from what comes to my mind; Build instructions are
below.

Changes (short version):

There is an imap gateway, we can accept connections from Outlook in
the proxy, we have taken a few steps to make it much easier to support
other programming languages like Java and Python in the future and
buiding NMapi is quite simple now.

Changes (longer version):

The great looking OpenMapi.org T-Shirts are now available for only 18,99 $ from the CafePress OpenMapi.org Shop. If you order this from Europe, that means you'll pay only about 20 Euros or something including shipping costs. So, hey, if you're still looking for Christmas presents - oh, wait .... ;-)

The OpenMapi.org Java library (still unreleased) can be used to build Android apps that directly connect to the OpenMapi.org Proxy server and, from there, to any NMapi supported backend or MAPI provider.

The screenshot shows a little example app (that really just prints the directory structure of the MAPI store it is connected to to the screen) running in the Android emulator.

Some parts of NMapi just landed in svn. The module includes the proxy
as well as the teamXchange backend. Some interesting things have been
removed (like proxy modules, some providers, the gateways and tools) and
will hopefully follow in the next days/weeks.

Get it from svn:

Or browse it with WebSvn.

The code currently might or might not build on Linux with the latest