On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 10:40 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> > on 12/13/2007 6:43 PM Chris Mauritz spake the following:
> > > Scott Silva wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> > evolution <<<<--------
> > >>>
> > >>> Actually, if you're using Windows XP (32-bit), Evolution does work.
> > >>> At least according to these folks:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/
> > >>>
> > >>> Best,
> > >> After trying this, it doesn't work very well.
> > >>
> > >> "These aren't the droids we're looking for. You can go about your
> > >> business. Move along. Move along."
> > >
> > >
> > > I haven't actually tried it myself since I'm satisfied with
> > > Thunderbird. What exactly was wrong with it? I've never used Evolution
> > > (even on Linux) since it always seemed rather buggy to me.
> > >
> > I tried a quick install "just to see" and no matter how I tried to connect to
> > my imap server, it kept throwing ssl errors, even without trying an encrypted
> > connection. In no way could I connect and display messages or folders.
> > Then after uninstall, it left a lot of stuff behind, still running.
> > I think the creator made it just fit their requirements and stopped.
> ----
> I've been using Evolution in various versions via CentOS, RHEL and
> Fedora for years, always with an IMAP server and using TLS too. Note
> that this e-mail (like all my e-mails whether from office or home) was
> written with Evolution.
>
> Never had an issue
>
> The only feature that it seems to lack is support for namespaces such as
> those offered by cyrus with shared folders.
>
> Craig
I agree with Craig's sentiment about Evolution + IMAP. No problems.
Now, Evolution + Exchange Connector, that's a different story. My mail
box at work is on Exchange, and at the moment that probably isn't going
to change. I found the Exchange Connector to be too slow in versions
prior to 2.12 (inefficient recursive checking of mail in folders/shared
folders), but that 2.12 had it's own share of Exchange problems
(calendar messages were messed-up, *all* attachments came through as
that stoopid winmail.dat crap).
I've found that when dealing with Exchange and people on non-Windows
(even OSX w/o MS Office), you have two options:
1) Get rid of Exchange. (IMO, preferable)
-- or --
2) Enable IMAP, use what-ever client you want, and use OWA (Outlook Web
Access) for your calendaring. (not perfect, but works)
Now, I've heard of rumours that someone is working on a native MAPI
plug-in for Evolution (Connector uses OWA's RPC-over-HTTP), but no ETA
as of yet.
--Tim
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