Re: [PLUG] What list is this again?

On 10/4/07, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com > wrote:

On 10/4/07, Brent Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com > wrote:
> have you been able to test the Outlook Exchange connector for evolution? it
> worked "just okay" last time i tested it (i'm no longer required to use it,
> as i am not employed by the place that required it anymore!) and i have no
> need nor ability to test it as of late so i was wondering if it's been
> improved or not.
>
>
> On 10/4/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net > wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 04 October 2007 14:28:45 Chad Waters wrote:
> > > Ubuntu 7.10
> >
> > Been using it over a month.  Nice with few problem bugs.  It seems to be
> the
> > way to go if you want to use Linux in an MS environment.
> >
> > This version of evolution (2.12) seems really close to getting it right --
> it
> > has better OSS attributes in that it is much more efficient and light
> weight,
> > while better integration with an exchange server, and they even coded
> hooks
> > to pinentry for us KDE users because the gnome passphrase entry dialog
> popped
> > under the message window (I argued that this was a security issue because
> it
> > resulted in inadvertent typing of the passphrase into the body of the
> email.)
> >
> > Nice improvements to hal and dbus.
> >
> > And once I used the suggested sadms, I am well integrated into the domain
> > here.
> >
> > Seems like tons of other goodies for gnome users, but I am not one so I
> can't
> > comment.

[KSB] evolution post 2.0 had a bug that was a show stopper for me.
Our Exchange administrators, bless their hearts, set it so that the
mailbox name is different from the userid (so my mailbox name would be
ks.bhaskar but my userid would be e1234567 where 1234567 would be my
employee id).  evolution stopped being able to deal with this, so I
gave up on it years ago and switched to thunderbird (via IMAP;
evolution continued to work via IMAP, but why bother putting up with
bloatware - such as several minutes to start up as it re-indexed all
my mail folders - without the benefits).  This bug was always in the
"to fix someday" pipeline for evolution, but through 2.10 had not made
it to the fixed list.  I hope this fixed in 2.12, but I don't hold
much hope for it.

Regards
-- Bhaskar
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