Comments on: Outlook on Linux : Evolution Exchange

By: Sujith Haridasan

Sujith Haridasan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:11:59 +0000

Beryl made every ones mouth opened in my office!!! When I gave a talk in my college the same thing happened. Students told me that Linux doesn’t has good GUI. Then I showed them the power of beryl installed in my laptop. No comments came from them!!!

By: Viju

Viju — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:58:45 +0000

Have you seen this? http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html Grin

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:14:30 +0000

Your original issue sounds like a DNS problem without hearing much more about it. The exchange plugin for evolution has been working pretty well for me personally. It’s much like Enterouge (The OSX Microsoft mail prog) gets mail, and it seems to work well enough.

By: Azmi

Azmi — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:11:55 +0000

My personal experience with using the evolution exchange connector isn’t that great. It may seem to be ok if you have a local mail server. If you are using a remote mail server and have a big mail box, its a big kill. Guess this and my VPN client are the only two reasons I am still reluctant booting to Ubuntu on my laptop.

For your problem, with outlook, try reaching ur mail server using ping or telnet, when outlook is not able to connect to it. Looks like u have had enough of it by now

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:37:23 +0000

@Rohith: Yes, you’re right. Looks like this problem is not over yet. The good part is that it hasn’t crashed on me yet. The only part which is not working and most important for me is the ‘download messages for offline usage’ option… sigh.

By: Rohith V

Rohith V — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:22:50 +0000

Evolution doesn’t download your emails. Infact the evolution exchange connector, AFAIK, does not have an implementation to do so. It connects to your MS Exchange thru the same OWA Web Access which you using to check thru a browser. I have used this for over an yr and half on RHFC and they are so buggy. Try deleting mails and moving them between folders.

Instead a few of my colleagues here were using wine and MS Outlook on Ubuntu setup and it used to work all fine when it worked or crash all the time when it didn’t

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:44:11 +0000

@Sriram: Sent you a mail

@Prady: Well, the novelty hasn’t worn off for me yet and I see that I end up 1-2 features only in my actual daily usage (when “working”)

By: Prady

Prady — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:31:32 +0000

http://prady.livejournal.com/51120.html

By: Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:23:17 +0000

That’s sad to hear - can you send me more details to my mail id and I’ll try to help you out.