[Evolution] Evolution + Exchange (was: Evolution for Windows...)

[Dustin Hamilton <d saiku net>]

Tor,

Thank you very much for the direct replies; I am very new to looking into Linux, but I believe I have heard 
of your name in quite high regard before...

I like the idea of Evolution for Windows, but yeah I think for an end-user it seems not mature enough for 
everyday use... at least this is my personal impression.  Just yesterday I was able to get Eeebuntu setup on 
my PC and my current struggle is getting Exchange going...

I found a command to get the evolution-exchange package installed, but it kicks an error... seems to detect 
my Exchange 2007 server as being Exchange 5.5 and states the Exchange Connector only supports 2000 and 2003. 
Any suggestions?

Thanks specifically for your help... in general I can add that I'm pretty amazed at the level of 
person-to-person support in the Linux community. Before I thought open-source would equal no support, but I 
find I get more support than I ever do with MS products!

Dustin Hamilton • d saiku net
MSN d saiku net • Skype d-saiku.net
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From: tlillqvist gmail com [tlillqvist gmail com] On Behalf Of Tor Lillqvist [tml iki fi]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 2:56 AM
To: Dustin Hamilton
Cc: evolution-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution for Windows: wont start

> Tor - thank you for the help, that did it... after that I was able to launch the program, although it 
> appears to keep a command-prompt window open?

It's not really a "command prompt" window, as there is not command
interpreter (cmd.exe) there, it's just Evolution's windows. The
correct term is console window. But at least you didn't call it a "DOS
box"... This is because the evolution executables are marked as
"console applications" and not "gui applications". (This is just a
field in the executable header, it has no effect on whether the
program can have a gui or not.)

That the console window appears is a completely trivial minor point
from a developer point of view, and extremely easy to get rid of when
building Evolution, just a -mwindows switch is needed, or even
afterwards if one has the suitable tool editbin.exe. To end-users the
console window seems odd, of course. The main reason why Evolution
still is by default built on Windows as a console application (i.e.
which opens a console window is because it makes it easier to see
error messages and warnings. But yeah, the default really should be
changed.

--tml