W. Chris Shank on 19 Jan 2008 09:16:59 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] The One True OS, migrating to


outlook and imap is almost useless. outlook likes to completely freeze  
the interface during imap send/receive operations (ironically  - it  
doesn't do this with POP - makes you go hmmm...). Also, they made it  
realy hard to HIDE deleted messages (cause in IMAP delete = flag for  
deletion later). So instead of the message going away - it remains  
with with a line through it. MS's IMAP implementation is clearly  
intended to allow IMAP connections while simultaneously discouraging  
them by frustrating users. IMAP and Outlook should be avoided unless  
you find a 3rd party app to allow better integration.


On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:

> On Friday 18 January 2008, Art Alexion wrote:
>> Running kmail 1.9.6 (enterprise) on Kubuntu and don't see and  
>> "Exchange
>> 2000" option when trying to create a new account.  Should I be  
>> looking
>> elsewhere?
>
> I *believe* (again, no experience doing it myself) that you use IMAP  
> for
> KMail.  For KOrganizer, there's a plugin for connecting to an Exchange
> server.  Googling got me a few pages with instructions on connecting
> kaddressbook using LDAP.  Most of what I can say about this comes from
> googling around for info.
>
> http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KOrganizer+and+the+MS+Exchange+plug-in
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1498637333
> http://movingparts.net/2006/05/05/ldap-microsoft-exchange-and-kaddressbook-or-thunderbird/
> http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2005/12/08/kontact-ms-exchange-ms-adi/
>
>> On Thursday 17 January 2008 22:57:36 Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
>>> http://www.toltec.co.za/connector.html
>>> http://www.konsec.com/en/products/konnektor.html
>>>
>>> I don't know much about them, since I've never had to deal with the
>>> dreaded Exchange.
>>
>> Yeah, I checked the links and they don't seem to work with exchange  
>> at all,
>> but rather replace it.  That is not an option for most people with  
>> the need
>> to use an open source/linux MUA/PIM/groupware client like Kontact or
>> Evolution.  We need to connect to an existing server.
>
> Oh, I misread those pages, I thought that was for kolab to connect to
> exchange, which would have allowed you to run kolab as a middleman  
> between
> exchange and kontact...
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