A quick update. Solved the problem by resorting to IE and using the filtering-rules functionality in the resulting fuller version of OWA. Not quite what I had in mind, but it seemed to work.
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Phil Ashby wrote:
We have a very similar issue here in BT, the Exchange systems have forwarding disabled, so in order to read my email from a Debian desktop, I have used (in chronological order):
Evolution: ok-ish with Exchange 2003 OWA using Ximian connector
It appears that Evolution's Exchange connectivity has been borked by a recent library upgrade: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-834437.html?sid=471d5835dbeae08fe952e5735d8e23e5.
Outlook 2003 in a Qemu VM against Exchange 2007 (I was 'upgraded')
This didn't work out due to something I forgot to mention about the server: its security certificate expired months ago. Couldn't suss out how to override the resulting client-side security panic in Outlook.
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ - it rocks :)
Are all components of this open source? I downloaded what's supposed to be the source tarball and it contains (among other stuff) a bunch of .class files - but I thought .class files were pre-compiled JVM bytecode. Yes? No?