On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:26 +0000, Tony Smith wrote: > > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to use Evolution to get my mail from an Exchange server.
> > For a while all looked to be OK but this morning I noticed some mails
> > had vanished from my inbox. Looking via webmail and Outlook I can see
> > the messages are still on the server.
> >
> > I have tried a re-sync, tried deleting the account and recreating it,
> > and a couple of other things but nothing seems to bring these messages
> > back.
> >
> > Since the webmail interface is so slow and using Outlook means running
> > WinXP under VMware wasting lots of resources I would really like to
> > have Evolution work reliably. Anyone seen this kind of thing before
> > and know how to fix it and prevent it happening again?
> >
> > I have thought of using other mail clients but I have to be able to
> > manage my diary too.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rich
>
> I was in this situation lately.
>
> Is the POP3 interface running? The solution was to fetchmail it via POP to my home server then host it from there via DIMAP.
>
> Remember, nmap is your friend
>
> Tony Don't *think* you'll get it to work with certain Exchange set-ups. It's
limited to pop/imap and the web-access attachment. There was a paid
plug-in to get full private / public directories but not been able to
find it for looking.
