[Macpartners] Evolution for Mac OS X 10.3

[Timothy Boyden]

Without having direct experience using Evolution or Entourage with
Exchange - probably not much, however Evolution does let you have
configured multiple email accounts of various types, so you could have 3
different Exchange accounts going, a Groupwise account, and an IMAP
account without having to use multiple email applications, and you'd be
able maintain a central personal address book across all those accounts.
Exchange was probably a bad example given the availability of Entourage,
however based on the posts on Microsoft's newsgroup for Entourage, there
seems to be quite a few people that don't feel it fills the need that a
full blown Outlook client would.


On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:45 -0400, Kerem B Limon wrote:

> Quoting Timothy Boyden <trboyden at MIT.EDU>:
> 
> > For those who might be interested in trying out Evolution (an email
> > client similar to Microsoft Outlook), Novell has released a port for Mac
> > OS X 10.3 at the following website:
> > 
> > http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?evolution
> > 
> > Previously Mac users were able to obtain Evolution by installing Fink,
> > however this package is a direct port of the Evolution application and
> > does not require Fink to be installed. The port is based on the current
> > 2.2 release version of Evolution for Linux and as such contains that
> > versions feature set such as SpamAssasin spam filtering, Microsoft
> > Exchange Server 2000/2003 and Novell Groupwise server support. A full
> > description of Evolution's features can be found at the following:
> > 
> > http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/
> > 
> > As a port, Evolution does have some shortcomings, and after some use
> > these are some that I have discovered:
> > 
> > 300+ Mb installed
> > 
> > Requires X11 to be installed and to run Evolution (X11 based apps tend
> > to open slower than native Mac apps)
> > 
> > Shortcut keys are the UNIX variant (i.e. Control-A to select all as
> > opposed to Command-A)
> > 
> > Evolution program window does not respond to application switching  (you
> > have to minimize other applications to get to the Evolution program
> > window)
> > 
> > Despite it's current limitations, Evolution could fill a niche where
> > some of it's features are needed to overcome other email application or
> > operating system shortcomings (such as a Mac client for Microsoft
> > Exchange). Also I don't have a 10.4 machine so I have no idea if it
> > works under Tiger.
> > 
> 
> This is cool. However, I was under the impression that Microsoft is actively
> positioning Entourage as the Exchange client app on the Mac. What does
> Evolution do specifically that Entourage doesn't?
> 
> -Kerem
> 
> 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Timothy Boyden
> > MIT Department of Facilities
> > IT Support & Training Group
> > 
> 
> 
> Kerem B. Limon
> kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail
> 

Timothy Boyden
MIT Department of Facilities
IT Support & Training Group
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