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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.<BR>
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On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:45 -0400, Kerem B Limon wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Quoting Timothy Boyden <<A HREF="mailto:trboyden@MIT.EDU">trboyden@MIT.EDU</A>>:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> For those who might be interested in trying out Evolution (an email</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> client similar to Microsoft Outlook), Novell has released a port for Mac</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> OS X 10.3 at the following website:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?evolution">http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?evolution</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Previously Mac users were able to obtain Evolution by installing Fink,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> however this package is a direct port of the Evolution application and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> does not require Fink to be installed. The port is based on the current</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 2.2 release version of Evolution for Linux and as such contains that</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> versions feature set such as SpamAssasin spam filtering, Microsoft</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Exchange Server 2000/2003 and Novell Groupwise server support. A full</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> description of Evolution's features can be found at the following:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/">http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> As a port, Evolution does have some shortcomings, and after some use</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> these are some that I have discovered:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 300+ Mb installed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Requires X11 to be installed and to run Evolution (X11 based apps tend</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to open slower than native Mac apps)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Shortcut keys are the UNIX variant (i.e. Control-A to select all as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> opposed to Command-A)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Evolution program window does not respond to application switching (you</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> have to minimize other applications to get to the Evolution program</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> window)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Despite it's current limitations, Evolution could fill a niche where</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> some of it's features are needed to overcome other email application or</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> operating system shortcomings (such as a Mac client for Microsoft</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Exchange). Also I don't have a 10.4 machine so I have no idea if it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> works under Tiger.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This is cool. However, I was under the impression that Microsoft is actively</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">positioning Entourage as the Exchange client app on the Mac. What does</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Evolution do specifically that Entourage doesn't?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-Kerem</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Timothy Boyden</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> MIT Department of Facilities</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> IT Support & Training Group</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Kerem B. Limon</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="mailto:kerem.limon@mit.edu">kerem.limon@mit.edu</A> /e-mail</FONT>
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