Kontact Calendar - IMAP etc

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 9:23:20 am Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Evolution is ugly, it routinely gives me wrong counts on messages
>>> (especially unread ones) in a folder, and it doesn't have anything
>>> remotely like logical navigation, but it does do a better job of
>>> synchronizing messages and calendars from the Exchange server than either
>>> the XP box (which is a 7 year old P4, with only 256 or 512MB RAM) or a
>>> web browser.  I sure wish I could do this with Kontact.
>>
>> I can't agree with you more.  Except, I use Evolution instead of XP on an
>> old box or a VM to connect.
>
> Then you're agreeing completely :-)  I _did_ use XP, but as of today that
> machine is just a boat anchor, because Evolution replaced it.
>
>> You get used to the navigation, and yes, its
>> ugly, but I'd rather have ugly, than doesn't work.
>
> Indeed.  The XP box was taking 10-15 minutes to log in, open outlook and
> connect to the Exchange server, and show me my new mail.  Evolution is much
> faster and better (though ugly).

I tried to use evolution for months to contact my work exchange
server.  It just crashed and crashed and crashed.  My solution was to
buy crossover office and run outlook from KDE.  Now I only have to
restart outlook once a day, or so.

kmail would actually work with the exchange imap server, but it was
horribly slow and none of the groupware features were usable.

My coworker here tried to use Evolution and KDE 4.1 under fedora and
got constant lockups, so now he is converting to Gnome which seems to
work better.  :-(   For KDE to be useful in a work setting, kmail (and
the rest of Kontact) needs to get good Exchange support.

Michael