Kontact Calendar - IMAP etc

[Emanoil Kotsev]

--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Kontact Calendar - IMAP etc
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 4:53 PM
> 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
> 

I've been using evolution with exchange plugin with Suse 10.2 and now I switched to kubuntu 8.04 and use evolution the same way.

I do not experience any troubles with it. It's working great.
Calender, Mail, Reminder, public calender and so on.

It has crashed once or twice in about 2 years noe, but I'm sure outlook crashes too, so may be you have to look at the debuging info and track the problem down.

regards