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'm not normally so concerned with the graphical side of Linux, but would love to be able to defend the non-dependance of Windows, and would love to swing a few colleagues over to the dark side. But without a little "it's almost Windows/Office" I'll just be wasting my time.
I'm happy with pine, but I'm not sure that'll work for everyone! :)
Cheers.
-Mark
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)
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 01:15 +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I was for a while, then I gave up and started using outlook over Crossover/Wine
Actually it's probably worth mentioning that that isn't particularly viable either as there are still a few bugs with most versions of Outlook (or at least all the ones I tried) The biggest being that find doesn't work which is deeply annoying.
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