Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
Ximian's Exchange Connector let's you use Evolution to connect:
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/
There is a FAQ here:
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/faq.html
AFAICR, there is a per seat/connection fee.
HTH,
Marc
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
You can get Ximian Connector from http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/ which plugs into Ximian Evolution. It is not free as in beer or speech and cost about $60 or so. However, it works very well for me at work.
Read the specs on the product since there are some requirements such as is needs MS Exchange 2000 or newer and it also needs Outlook Web Access to be turned on since it uses WebDav.
It will allow you to get your mail, calendar, contacts, etc.
Jim Drabb
Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
Hopefully it won't be long before Kontact has server support enabled. Kontact is quite impressive. http://www.kontact.org/groupwareservers.php
John
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
If you work in a company where Exchange 5.5 is still in use (my situation), you can't use Ximian Connector (Connector only works with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003).
I've been using Crossover Office:
everyday ever since it's first release, and I'm very pleased. It runs Office 97 and Outlook 2000 solidly, with only some minor cosmetic flaws. Agreed, you could just use run Outlook on regular ol' Wine for free, but I pay the folks at Codeweavers for their Crossover Office, basically for their installer and for their support should I ever need it (I haven't). I believe it's about he same price as Ximian Connector, and it lets you run the complete MS Office suite if you should need to.
Not a prefect FOSS solution, but a workable one for now.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily basis to connect to an exchange server.
George Farris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
Yup post it.
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:44, Peter Eddy wrote:
George Farris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
Doesn't Ximian also make a connector (that you can buy) that will plugin all the more advanced Exchange functionality into Evolution?
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:44, Peter Eddy wrote:
George Farris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
Adam Voigt wrote:
Doesn't Ximian also make a connector (that you can buy) that will plugin all the more advanced Exchange functionality into Evolution?
Yes, I think so, but I haven't tried it because I don't particularly like using Evolution and I don't want to pay for software that my employer should really be providing.
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
Peter
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:26, Peter Eddy wrote:
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
I must say I've used Evolution for years and have never experienced anything like that. In my experience Evolution just keeps getting better and better.
George Farris wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:26, Peter Eddy wrote:
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
I must say I've used Evolution for years and have never experienced anything like that. In my experience Evolution just keeps getting better and better.
I'm glad to hear that. Still, once bitten...
In any case, I'm happy with Thunderbird, which also works well for me on my OSX machine. It's nice to have the same mail reader everywhere I read mail.
Peter
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:26, Peter Eddy wrote:
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
That is pretty funny : )
I use Evolution and Ximian Connector at work. This is at a fortune 500, and while we have Linux servers, I am one of the few who use Linux for my Dev workstation. The Oracle DBAs have been coming to me about setting up some Linux desktops (we have Oracle DB and J2EE on Linux now). Most likely because of Oracle's big Linux push. Anyway, the DBA manager came and I set up FC1 for him with Evolution and Ximian Connector. It worked great...until he looked at his calendar. Ximian Connector went and popped up a reminder window for each _past_ meeting for the whole year. More then 400 windows came up. He went back to MS Windows XP because of that : )
It does work very well for me. However, I have logged a few bug requests about a persistent crash. _Every_ time I close Evolution, it crashes under FC1 when I am using Ximian Connector. It is a little annoying, though not a show stopper for me.
Peter
Jim Drabb
George Farris wrote:
Yup post it.
Sorry it took so long, I tried to get a sourceforge project for this but I was rejected.
Anyway, Lookout is a simple python script that provides pop-up and email notifications for meetings scheduled in Outlook. Its main requirements are that you have the Outlook web interface available. It also requires wget and xmessage, which ought to be there already.
http://people.atg.com/~petere/lookout/lookout-0.3.tgz
Peter
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:44, Peter Eddy wrote:
George Farris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
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