Evolution 1.0 Released 425
jdavidb writes: "I pulled up the Ximian redcarpet updater this morning and discovered that Evolution 1.0 is finally available! Now Outlook can start facing some serious competition, although there's still a long way to go. (Evolution does not yet emulate all the Outlook viruses, of course, nor does it integrate with Exchange Server.)" Here's Ximian's full announcement. Update: 12/03 14:59 GMT by T : Nat Friedman of Ximian points out that they're offering a software extension which does allow integration with Exchange 2000. There's good story on the new iteration of Evolution at NewsForge, too.
Proprietary Exchange-support to follow (Score:5, Informative)
Exchange... (Score:5, Informative)
A better way of putting this is "does not COMPLETELY integrate with Exchange Server". I'm running it with my company's Exchange servers, via IMAP, LDAP, and SMTP, and the only thing not working is Calendar and shared TODO.
installation (Score:4, Informative)
Otherwise, download the binaries [ximian.com] or source code [ximian.com].
nice, also good for Palm synching (Score:3, Informative)
I hope it's finaly a stable program now, cause it had lot's of nasty bugs.
Ciryon
Exchange compatability (Score:3, Informative)
Two Things... (Score:2, Informative)
2) I can't expunge mail at all. It's got something to do with the UID EXPUNGE header while using IMAP and the commercial version of Sendmail running here. Pine can do it. Netscape can do it. So can Outlook. But Evolution can't. I've reported this issue, and unfortunately they didn't address it in the 1.0 release.
Evolution looks nice. But if I can't expunge my mail without loading up pine, then I'll stick with pine.
Bummer.
Re:Were is IBM? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Slack Support (Score:1, Informative)
Easily fixed (on Slack 8):
1) put
2) when compiling gnome stuff use './configure --prefix=/opt/gnome'
and re-run ldconfig as root after installing a library.
Then there's no need to symlink stuff 'all-over-the-place'.
Binaries Only (Score:3, Informative)
* evolution
* libgnome-pilot0
* libgtkhtml20
* libnss3
Note, I installed under Debian, so other systems may be slightly different, however, this should be a very good place to start
Re:IRDA? (Re:nice, also good for Palm synching) (Score:2, Informative)
If you're having problems connecting... (Score:3, Informative)
By the way, I just connected and it seems there is an "Urgent Update" for red-carpet, which brings it up to version 1.1.4-ximian.8. (Sorry, I can't tell you what my previous version was, 'cuz I already upgraded.
Gnome is looking hella good these days. I'm sure Evolution is just as good, but I have no reason to give up Pine anytime soon.
Re:What's so special about Mandrake 8.1 (Score:2, Informative)
I just loaded 0.99.2 onto my system the day before yesterday this way and, so far, it works great. Imported all of my old mail (mbox format) without a problem. Only downside I found was having to key in all of my email addresses...
Hope this helps,
C0deMonkey
Re:What's so special about Mandrake 8.1 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Secure MIME? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Were is IBM? (Score:5, Informative)
here [lotus.com] and here [winecentric.com]
Re:Ximian and Distribution upgrades. (Score:3, Informative)
Once that's done, proceed with your upgrade as if you never had Ximian Gnome installed on your system...
Re:Okie dokey - time to figure out how to migrate! (Score:2, Informative)
Connect with Evolution, and copy them back.
I think you can mail all your contacts to yourself, but I didnt get vCard to work with the last beta. Haven't tried the last release.
Re:Outlook Competition? (Score:3, Informative)
Not true; you only need the required libraries installed in order to run evolution, you don't need gnome to be running. You can quite happily run it on a machine running KDE, or WindowMaker, twm, etc. You may well lose some of the default integration stuff, but that should be fixed just by changing file type associations to point at your chosen apps.
Even if you install Gnome in its entirity, you'll only blow a hundred megs of disk space or so, and even I can afford that
Cheers,
Tim
Re:Offshoots (Score:1, Informative)
no, it's not out of sync. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Exchange users will pay more... (Score:4, Informative)
Regardless right now I think they are targetting developers who have a Linux box for development and then a windows box for their administrative stuff (email, office, etc.) They are enabling the devleoper to get rid of the Windows box. Should this prove successful (and OpenOffice/Staroffice 6 actually works well) I think they will start to target the general business user.
Re:Ximian Connector (Score:2, Informative)
A2: No, it was started because he didn't want a proprietry toolkit being the foundation of an open source desktop. Having a proprietry extension to an open source email client is not a foundation, you don't need to use it if you don't want to, and it doesn't provide anything that the majority of people who care about open/closed source care about.
Re:Shame about Exchange (Score:2, Informative)
As has already been said by two posters... (Score:5, Informative)
The plugin runs as a component, not a library, so the communication is via a CORBA interface. Since no linking occurs (merely CORBA communication) there is no GPL violation, nor any need to re-license.