[TriLUG] Evolution gets the thumbs up

[William Ward]

Hi Jon,

My life would be much easier if Evolution was able to 'plug-in' to 
Exchange.  I think Evolution supports that in some roundabout way, are 
you aware of it?  I say that based on some earlier posts about 
Evolution several months ago on Slashdot.

There is hope in my company, we're making moves to implement Linux for 
several back-end tasks previously reserved for expensive Sun boxes.  
The Unix team members grudgingly use MS Windows equipped PCs to access 
the corporate mail system, Exchange.  Being able to diversify would be 
great, but it is unlikely we'll see Exchange booted from our corp for a 
long time.

I'm somewhat disappointed to note that Entourage, Microsoft's Outlook 
clone for the Macintosh, does not appear to support Exchange natively, 
although they do have Outlook 2001 which runs on older versions of the 
OS.

In the scheme of things, not a big deal, but the more tools that can be 
used in place of a Windows workstation and interoperate with the MS 
back-end, the less locked in the corp becomes.

Bill


On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 06:42 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Alright, with all this praise for evolution floating around on the 
> list,
> I finally had to try it.  After all it comes in the default install 
> with
> Mandrake...
>
> OK, so I love it!  There are you happy?
>
> I've been a devout lover of Kmail for over a year now (it works just
> like Outlook Express...), and I thought that was all I would ever want
> in an email program - but I have to say, the auto-spell checking as you
> type is a real winner!  Plus the formating right out of the box is
> wonderful.
>
> The feel is a little "exchange-ish" but not in a bad way.  The amazing
> part is that all the extra buzzes and whistles don't seem to be slowing
> down the basic functionality (and I'm running this on a 300Mhz system).
> I hate to say it, but it really is a killer app.
>
> Jon
>
> ======
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 20:58, Kevin Sonney wrote:
>> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 19:15, David A. Cafaro wrote:
>>> Evolution is part of the Ximian desktop.  www.ximian.com
>>> Downloading from them can be very difficult to install unless you go
>>> with there Ximian desktop (oh yeah, ximian is an X app, not command
>>> line).  Best bet to get a copy of Evolution for your computer would 
>>> be
>>> to go to www.rpmfind.net (or your preferred package management, or 
>>> look
>>> for the tars) and use one someone else has setup against your distro.
>>
>> If your distro doesn't include gnome/evolution, then you probably want
>> Ximian. However, it should be noted that Ximian doesn't play nice with
>> all distros, and once you start using their package management,
>> reverting to your prior system is a pain.
>>
>> (pain as in, if you use Red Hat, you use Ximian Red Carpet, because
>> up2date will find all kinds of borked depends).
>>
>> Fortunately, Evolution is, as stated below, included in Red Hat Linux
>> 7.3,  Mandrake 8.x, and AFAIK, Debian GNU/Linux.
>>
>> Gnome2 is also in the public Red Hat beta (null). Gnome 2 is pretty.
>> Metacity rocks.
>>
>>> others).  It's nice, I like it even more than Eudora Pro, it helped 
>>> make
>>> the final cut to linux only for me.
>>
>> Evolutions was one of the "killer apps" that Linux needed, IMHO, to 
>> gain
>> wider acceptance. I had used every GUI mail app I could find, and 
>> *NONE*
>> were as good, IMHO, as Pegasus Mail, Eudora, or, for that matter,
>> Outlook Express - until Evolution.
>>
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