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 _____________________ < Too many interrupts > --------------------- \ \ \ \ /\ ( ) .( o ).