Comments on: Dropping Evolution

By: bigbert

bigbert — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:30:06 +0000

Moral of the story: stay away from Exchange.

Evolution has ONE killer feature: you can set a filter on incoming messages to drop into a shell and execute an external app. The Thundebird people says this is a ‘security hole’ – but not if you use your brain. I love it – means I can do all sorts of things remotely on my box without a connection to it – just send a specific email to it…

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:12:32 +0000

And all this purely because of Exchange. Agree completely – most corporate users will be using Exchange as their mail server.

For a few months now, I’ve been part of a beta at our place with Zimbra as a corporate mail server. The benefit here is it has a great web interface, as well as a separate desktop client which has flavours for each of the major platforms. It also has a connector which provides full Outlook support.

So if you’re setting up a new mail server, Zimbra is your man. It at least gives you the full spectrum of support regardless of the platform your community chooses to use. Would be great if Microsoft adopted a similar philosophy, but that’s not going to happen while Ballmer’s there, I suppose.

By: brad

brad — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:55:56 +0000

I’m not sure what you guys are talking about, evolution is working fine for me. Maybe the problem lies between the laptop and the chair

By: Otavio Ferreira

Otavio Ferreira — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:18:38 +0000

Thank you Jacques. It’s working fine here as well.

By: danivalentin

danivalentin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:17:05 +0000

/! thanks for this. Works perfectly

By: JvN

JvN — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:07:38 +0000

@Chester – I’ve read a number of blogs that mentioned that the Evolution code is convoluted, to say the least. It is very unstable indeed, in practice. The latest version of Thunderbird beats it hands down…and it even has a template to make it look like Outlook. A chance to have a little bit of Microsoft on your *nix desktop.

By: Chester

Chester — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:58:35 +0000

And you tell me that *now* that I don’t need to use Exchange anymore?

The curious thing is that I had pretty much the *exact* same experience with Evolution, but around 2006-2007. Hard to know why it gets so unstable, considering it does not need to be multi-platform (like Thunderbird) or being committed to a semi-legacy, single-file format (like Outlook).

By: Mike Raath

Mike Raath — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:27:13 +0000

And all this purely because of Exchange. Agree completely – most corporate users will be using Exchange as their mail server.