Kontact Calendar - IMAP etc

[Art Alexion]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- On Tue, 10/14/08, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>> >>

>> >
>> >> 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.

>
> 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.

I have been using evolution-exchange for about 18 months.  On SLED
10.1, Ubuntu Feisty through Hardy.  With the exception of a KDE
laptop, I usually use it u nder gnome.  It is currently extremely
stable.  It goes through some days of instatability, but I have traced
them to the exchange server which tends to go flakey from time to
time.  There have also been some releases of evolution flakier than
others, but thhe devs tend to focus on performance and connectivity;
the interface hasn't changed since I started using it.

I had the problem Derek mentioned for a period, but seems to have
gotten fixed a couple of weeks ago.  The folder tree showed more
unread than were there, but the title bar count was accurate.

Evolution currently uses OWA for exchange data, and won't work with
Exchange 2007.  There is a MAPI replacement in development, but not
yet ready, that will work with all versions of exchange.

The conduits and back end are way more reliable than kpilot and the
exchange data is updated properly with a sync.

I think Ingo and the rest of the kontact developers work hard to be
responsive to bugs, but don't seem to fix them, just acknowledge them.
 The evo developers seem to work on performance over interface, and
that seems to be an illustration of gnome and kde these days.  I use
gnome at work and kde at home.  I prefer the kde interface, but the
performance has taken an increasing back seat to interface.  With
gnome, it mostly looks the same as it did 4 years ago, but stability
and performance are rock solid and improving.

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artAlexion
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