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For a while I’ve been fighting the good fight with poor stability using the webDav Exchange connection in Novell evolution.  This has now been replaced with a more functional solution (proper native MAPI support) in Ubuntu 8.10 and will be soon in Fedora 10 with OpenChange.

Finally, Evolution is behaving as you might expect it to when connecting to an Exchange server – the improvements are immense, both in stability and functionality.

The OpenChange site is here for more information:

http://www.openchange.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Hopefully this will be an end to using a buggy interface and the all to frequent crashes, along with the curse of occasional missing mail items.  I’ve only been using it for a day, but already I’m loving it!

This occasionally occurs for me in Evolution when picking up mail from my Exchange server. From this point new emails are displayed but don’t have any content. The solution – remove the Exchange directory’s. This should keep all settings, but then polls the mailbox again to collect content (NOTE: it’s a good idea to back up the contents of the /evolution directory first):

$evolution –force-shutdown
$ cd ~/.evolution
$ rm -rfv exchange/

Then restart Evolution and it should poll the mailbox and work!

EDIT:  This stopped working – now I have to run evolution as root and it seems to work again.  Very odd (& not very secure)