Re: [Evolution] Status of Evolution and Exchange

[Brett Johnson <brett hp com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 02:59 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> what exactly does not work?

Not speaking for Ade, but I've observed by converting my boss to a linux
laptop (he has a corporate msexchange account, and I don't, so this was
my first experience with the connector) -- that nearly all the problems
I've run into are related to poor error reporting in Evo, and difficulty
in finding the needed information to get the connection set up (i.e. the
proper OWA URL, GAB server, and username/password format).

For example, his msexchange account has a mailbox size quota.  If he's
using outlook or OWA, and he runs out of space, he gets what looks like
an email message in his inbox telling him he's out of space (and
msexchange refuses to send any more emails).  With Evo, he gets no
indication at all, except that Evo keeps asking for his password over &
over (and the mail just silently sits in his outbox, not being sent).

Another example is that a few days ago the msexchange server had
problems, and the OWA interface wasn't working (the web page  would fail
with a 105 client reset error).  Again, the only indication he got from
Evo that something was wrong was that it kept asking for his password
over and over.

Overall though, it works quite well for him, and he's a happy camper :)

-- 
Brett Johnson <brett hp com>