[nylug-talk] Connecting to an MS mail server

[Michael B Allen]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:41:52 -0500
Johnn Tan <linuxweb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Doesn't Codeweaver's Crossover run Outlook?

Mike

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