I have been using Evolution on and off for many years because of its ability to connect to Microsoft Exchange severs. But I typically will use it for a few weeks only to get pissed off because of random crashes or lockups and go back to using Outlook in a Virtual Machine. Even though Ubuntu 10.04 was released with Gnome 2.30 it held back the Evolution release to 2.28. Stupid move IMHO but lucky I have told you all how to update to the latest release.
Well have been using the 2.30 release for several days on my work laptop connected to Exchange 2007 and as the title of this post says, It Finally Useful! I have not had any lock ups or slow downs. I did have an issue with it downloading all of my message headers from my inbox but I have over 5500 emails in there so I don’t blame Evolution. I have since decided to have it download the full emails so that I can use it offline and that seems to have helped. Also after a rocky start with the Exchange MAPI connector in Evolution 2.28, in 2.30 it works like a charm. I can send and recieve email, add events to my calendar and query email address in Active Direcory with no issue.
Kudos Evolution Developers!
Update: (2007-7-26)
Looks like I spoke a little too soon. It seems that Evolution will not send emails periodically. I haven’t been able to pin point what the cause is but as soon as I do I will be filing a but report.