[wplug] Ximian Evolution/Ximian Connector

[Tim Quinlan]

I know it's not free and there're MS licensing to deal with (but it's
for your work and they probably already have licenses for Office).   Try
CrossOver Office http://www.codeweavers.com/products/office/ if you need
total compatibilty with MS Office users.

It uses a modified version of Wine to run an actual copy of MS Office on
Linux.  I've never used it, but it's supposed to work great.  There is a
trial version availible.

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 18:20, Jeremy Dinsel wrote:
> It's been a while since I've posted anything to the list, but recently,
> I've been struck by something that's had a considerable impression upon
> my life. I thought I would share.
> 
> At work, I had a linux box for development, a windows box for reading
> email and running the programs that I was developing on the linux box
> (although, they could also be run on the linux box) and my linux laptop
> for moving around the office and reading my outlook email through VNC. 
> 
> Something happened which drastically changed my office environment.
> Ximian produced (and I discovered some years? later) a program for
> connecting the Ximian evolution client to an exchange 2000 server.
> Thanks to this product, I'm no longer reading my outlook email in
> outlook. I'm no longer looking at outlook for the calendar. In fact, I'm
> no longer running windows on any of my primary computers at work. 
> 
> I did find that there are some key things missing in my environment
> still. The only one of any significance in my day-to-day life is that
> the non-MS Office programs cannot format documents in the same way that
> MS products can format them -- abiword is close, but not all the way
> there. I'll just have to push for html encoded documents (or the
> penultimate, ascii). 
> 
> For me, Linux just isn't as frustrating as Microsoft products are. In
> fact, its always been the complete opposite. Recently, I had been
> reflecting on what people had been saying back in 1997 -- linux won't
> catch on. It's not usable. Blah blah, etc, etc. I didn't believe them
> then, and I definately don't believe it today.
> 
> Back to Evolution: Evolution seems to be an interesting beast. I'm not
> sure why this is the case, but it copies mail out of the local delivery
> spool and stores it in a private mbox folder. This complicates matters
> if you've spent years developing your procmail filters. I haven't
> determined how to have evolution pull from these additional folders yet.
> 
> As someone who doesn't like unsolicted email, I've spent some time
> filtering my messages and tweaking my spamassassin rules to filter out
> the junk. (http://gunix.net/spam). I've been adjusting the scores based
> on the frequency of messages that match a particular filter. It seems
> that evolution doesn't have two things that Pine has: view headers and
> pipe [this message through this program].
> 
> So at the end of this message, I'm curious to know if others have
> similar success stories and if anyone has a solution to the local
> folders/procmail quandry that I have. 
> 
> Take care,