[TriLUG] Evolution and Exchange/IMAP

Justin xjparkerx at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 15:39:43 EST 2008


LOL woops sorry I missed that.  I'll do more digging.

Justin

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:10 -0500, Owen Berry wrote:
> Thanks for the links, but I'm using the IMAP interface to the Exchange
> server, not the exchange plugin. Tried that briefly and decided it was
> too horrid to even contemplate.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Justin <xjparkerx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looks like a bug with the evolution-exchange plugin, known upstream from
> > Ubuntu as well?
> >
> > Launch pad info:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-exchange/+bug/159401
> >
> > Gnome bugzilla info:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435371
> >
> > If you look at comments 15 and 16 on the gnome bugzilla you should see a
> > suggested workarounds.
> >
> > Let me know if this helps!
> > Justin
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 13:23 -0500, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> >> Yes, I've seen that happen, more in older versions(1+ years) of
> >> Evolution than newer(6months ago - when I last used it)   And for what
> >> ever reason, Evolution seemed more stable on Ubuntu than Fedora, but I
> >> never looked to see what code base they might have build from.   Also
> >> while I haven't looked at it at all, Evolution apparently also has a
> >> new exchange back end called Brutus, that may or may not be of use to
> >> you.  Evolution has always seemed buggy, but it's a lot better than it
> >> was!
> >>
> >> Also I think there is a duplicate mail plugin for evolution that came
> >> in handy as I this problem seemed to cause duplicate mail items in my
> >> IMAP folders.
> >>
> >> Matt P.
> >>
> >> On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Owen Berry wrote:
> >>
> >> > Anybody ever have any problems with using Evolution connecting to an
> >> > Exchange IMAP server? I'm having weird problems where sometimes (too
> >> > often) Evolution is not able to copy emails into folders. I don't get
> >> > any errors - the email just vanishes and I have to undelete it from
> >> > the Trash and try a copy instead (a copy seems more reliable). This is
> >> > the first time I've had trouble with Evolution and an IMAP server, so
> >> > I'm wondering if something funky is going on on the Exchange server,
> >> > or whether it's a combination of problems from both sides.
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying with Thunderbird and so far haven't had any similar
> >> > problems, but I have to admit that my preference is very much towards
> >> > Evolution.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Owen (wishing for an exchange for Exchange)
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