On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:11 +0100, Mark Ridley wrote:
Howdy all, anyone using Evo in a corporate Windows 2003 OWA style environment? I have a fairly massive mail archive and Evo just constantly hangs. I've tried multiple versions with the same effect.
I was for a while, then I gave up and started using outlook over Crossover/Wine
I didn't get hangs as such but I found that the folder update process would lockup for a bit and was generally quite slow/unresponsive.
Also I found on ubuntu Breezy that the first connection to the Exchange server would generally fail (can't remember the error but it was quite cryptic)
I think the main problem is that OWA was never designed to process that volume of messages in a single session. The OWA connector on Evolution basically seems to force OWA to enumerate all the messages on every connection. OWA was designed to list a page of messages at the time and then have random ones opened at user speed.
It seems to improve with better/faster exchange servers (or a front-end server, but that's gonna cost you in licensing)