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Originally Posted by Bassey
Brilliant. I've been looking for an Exchange compatible email client for ages. I tried (and liked) evolution but never came accross the Exchange plugin. whenever I've searched for Exchange and Linux I just get lots of talk about how Thunderbird are working on it and hope to have a v3 release in September.
Thanks bruisah!
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No problem!
FWIW, the exchange plugin used to be a chargeable option from the original owners of Evolution (Ximian). They got bought out a couple of years back by Novell when they (Novell) acquired Suse.
At that point, the exchange plug-in became free.
Meanwhile, I'd moved away from Evolution due to problems with it, and I've been happily using kmail instead (I much prefer it), but with the POP3 option for getting my email.
It's only recently that I've returned to Evolution (Fedora 9) and set up the Exchange plugin (which was very easy to do!)...
Incidentally, I also have my old work XP installation running as a VM. I found that VMWare have a tool called VMWare-converter. This installs in Windows and enables you to create a virtual machine from your current Windows installation. You can then take the VM image and run it under Linux (or whatever!).
As an additional (it keeps getting better!), Sun recently acquired Virtual Box which is a very good (and free) virtual machine player - and it can play images created by VMWare-converter!
So... At work, where we have IT built Windows installations, I shrunk my NTFS partition, created a Windows VM image, installed Fedora 9 (8 on the laptop), and now I run Windows under a VM to keep the IT bods off my case (and to properly sync my Loox PDA)!
It works really well, and it runs just as fast as XP did on my old work PC!
Anyway... Enough waffling on... I should really be doing some work!
A.