Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.6.2 ... I just want to cry...

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe sunspace co za>]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:10 +0100, Tom Haddon wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:58 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 08:38 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: 
> > > On 8/17/06, William Murray <W J Murray rl ac uk> wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > > Evo 2.6.3 will not help with that I fear. At least it didn't for me.
> > > > Its a shame, but personally I think the connector
> > > >    * Reliability
> > > >    * Start time
> > > >    * Memory footprint
> > > > are higher priorities..
> > > 
> > > 
> > > *sigh*
> > > 
> > > it is getting harder and harder to keep using evo. The speed improved
> > > somewhat from the version that shipped with suse10 when I upgraded to
> > > 2.6.0-18 from the suse supplementary gnome repo.
> > > 
> > > But, I have a vmware session running windows that it seems I have to
> > > go to constantly so that I can run internet explorer and OWA ... grrrr
> > > ... will evo and this connector ever work?
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm staring to think that every version of the Exchange Connector is a
> > beta release - I have not had Evol Exchange Conn working well since I
> > was forced to use it to get to our company email (even thinking on going
> > back to my WinXP machine for email!!)
> > 
> > Any reason why its so buggy? The exchange protocol (webdav) should be
> > well known by now, or does the iis the issue somewhere else?
> > 
> As I understand it, Evolution's Exchange connector doesn't use webdav -
> it uses screenscraping of OWA. I'm assuming this is because the webdav
> protocol isn't supported fully or implemented in a way that Evolution
> can connect to.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone can confirm or deny this. I use
> Evolution's Exchange connector at work, and while it is something of a
> dog, I'm grateful for it. And I know that if the OWA interface goes
> down, so does my email.
> 
> Thanks, Tom

Yes, im also greatfull for it, at the moment its the only connector
(that I know of) that can do my Exchange mail, calender, todo, contacts
etc.  But I do feel a bit stuck with it at the moment.
(really embarrassing when the MS only IT guy sees it crash all the time)
 


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