Regarding your rant, I tend to agree. Let me preface that I really like Evolution, and am currently having great success using it on FC5 (evo 2.6.3) with my company's Exchange server, even through SSL. So, MUCH THANKS for all that has been done on Evo!
But, yes, I tend to agree that the newest Evo versions are only relegated to the very latest distros. If you want to upgrade Evo, you usually have to upgrade your whole OS. That doesn't make sense to me. There was even a serious bug that was released via yum that made the Exchange Connector completely unusable, and it stayed that way for more than a month. Only after complaining did it get backported to FC5. FC6 wasn't even released yet. And forget trying to compile... so many dependencies. Again, I *love* evolution, and the only reason I chime in is because I want it to thrive. Viva la Evolution! -Lee On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:06 -0800, Ari El wrote: > >From what I gather, GAL works using simple LDAP. To connect to the server via > LDAP companies typically require you to be part of the private network. > Which mean that GAL works when connected to the intranet, and when VPNning > into your company's network. > > In my case, when I VPN GAL works, but the exchange connection breaks, > because my company requires the use of a Proxy server for HTTP when using > the VPN service, and Evolution 2.8 does not work via Proxy (the one you > setup in Gnome's control panel). > > Also Evo 2.8 exchange connector crashes 3 or 4 times a day in my ubuntu edgy > work laptop, and the evolution team does not provide packages of new or beta > releases for the popular distributions > > I tried to compile Evolution myself and it is really messy, and I could not > succeed; the evolution team provides no howto or anything. > > I'm really very annoyed by all this and I'm looking for alternatives to > Evolution for exchange mail retrieval, but don't seem to find any... > > > > > > Greg Michalopoulos wrote: > > > > Successfully connected to an Exchange server hosted off site. Cannot > > get the GAL to work. Have my calendar, all my contacts, emails, etc, > > but the GAL wont populate. I'm too lazy to look up people's email > > addresses. > > > > Any tips to get this working (error message is attached)? > > > > In the Receive Options tab of the exchange account, there are a few > > settings for GAL, including server name...the provider has been no help, > > is there any way to get this setting from my old outlook settings? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > PRIVACY NOTICE > > > > This email and any attachments may be confidential and/or privileged. Use > > of the information contained in this email by anyone other than the > > intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email > > in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete > > this email. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > Evolution-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
