[nylug-talk] Connecting to an MS mail server

[Johnn Tan]

R. Drew Davis wrote:
> I don't have Exchange here, so my plan had been to sit quietly and learn
> something.    But I was surprised as this discussion wound down that
> nobody mentioned the Evolution Exchange Connector??   I thought that had
> some edge in connecting Evolution to an Exchange server.
> 
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16234.html
> 
> Is the lesson that if Exchange is configured with POP or IMAP, you don't
> need that Exchange Connector for anything?

Correct. If Exchange is IMAP-enabled, use that with Thunderbird. 
Unfortunately, IMAP is disabled at my company, so I have to use 
Evolution (well, I could use POP but I find that even less satisfactory).

Since I am a longtime user of Thunderbird, I find the UI differences 
between it and Evolution to be slightly annoying but at least livable.

However, the biggest annoyance is that Evolution (rather, pieces of it, 
like the connector) are always crashing or just "hanging" for looong 
periods of time.

Sadly, I am now setting up VMWare in Ubuntu for the sole purpose of 
running WinXP, for the sole purpose of running Outlook 2003.

johnn