Is anyone using Evolution in Linux instead of Outlook?
 

As Im trying to get away from Windows I need an Outlook substitute. I had read great things about Evolution so I have been trying it. Sitting in IND this afternoon after a tasty $300 bump voucher and an upgrade on the next flight :) I was using it in an offline mode since there was no WiFi there. I made a lot of changes in the offline mode and when I got home and connected all of my changes were overwritten by what was previously on the server. In other words, a complete waste of time to work in the offline mode. Is this normal behavior or is something wrong with my setup or how it accesses my Exchange account (which seems to be through the Outlook Web access. (Im also struggling with the calendar but not ready to cry help with that yet. ;) ) Thanks for any help.

I'm using evolution, but on my desktop. Hard to say about the offline mode.

I found evolution to be almost as bloated as Outlook...although it is a very well done project considering the support MS gave them (IE none).

I was a diehard outlook power user, to the point where it was almos more of an OS to me than windows itself. As I've made the migration to Mac and Linux I've also changed email clients several times...my first compermise was to use an older windows box with remote desktop so that I could still use outlook in OS X and linx...I play with evolution quite a bit as well as Entourage (mac only)...

Today I'm a big fan of lighter weight email clients and dedicated apps for calendar and address book...but there are limitations. I'm using Thunderbird for email, and with the Lightening plugin it doubles as a pretty good calendering app. I do miss the "groupware" support for sending meeting requests and having appointments move b/t email and the calendar seamlessly..although I've been told there are ways to make it work.

I'm going down this rathole by way of suggesting that if you can don't need the total groupware package and Exchange connector that Evolution provides, you may want to check out Thunderbird and Lightening.... TB seems to handle offline mode quite well, I've only used it a few times, but it worked flawlessly.

Hmm, I should possibly consider this. I do need groupware for scheduling but I can use a handheld directly to the server to do this. Moving emails to my calendar, however, is something that I really want to be able to do. How do Thunderbird and Lightning work, or do they work, with Exchange? Thanks.