Quoting Brian May (brian@microcomaustralia.com.au):
On 2 July 2013 14:28, David Zuccaro <david.zuccaro@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
I've been using Evolution for years and it seems to do a good job. It
Evolution last I used it was not particularly reliable, and had a reputation of being unreliable and poorly supported. It has been a while since I used it, so I can't remember the details with the problems I encountered. Although I do seem to vaguely remember sometimes your configuration can get "corrupted" and require purging in order to restart evolution.
On the plus side [Evolution] had (still does?) built in support for Exchange, although this was not particularly reliable (or up-to-date) either.
A colleague at work uses a Davmail gateway daemon running on his Linux workstation. (It's Java. Ugh.) My recollection is that it relies on screen-scraping of the OWA (Outlook Web Access) to exchange scheduling and mail data. On the local side, it presents POP3, IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, Caldav, and Carddav cient services to whatever you choose to run locally. My colleague runs Mozilla Thunderbird for Linux behind that, and says it works really well. I most recently set up my own (Debian) workstation at that MS-Exchange-addicted site a few years before he did, so I used an earlier solution: Mozilla Thunderbird (actually, Debian's[1] Icedove) with Provider for Microsoft Exchange extension, Mozilla Sunbird scheduling extension (actually, Debian's Iceowl) and also (if memory serves) Microsoft Exchange data provider for Thunderbird Lightning. It works extremely well on the mail side of things, and almost perfectly on the scheduling side. At home, I rather more enthusiastically run just mutt. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_D...