[ale] On Topic: Exchange->Linux->PDA

Bob Toxen transam at verysecurelinux.com
Thu Sep 28 18:25:00 EDT 2006


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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:22:54PM -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:35:53AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >   At work we have an exchange system used for calendaring.  Luckily Mail
> > is on a different system for techs.  Strange setup but that's how it is.
> > At any rate I'd like to use my Linux laptop to pull calendar date from
> > the exchange server, even the web-mail interface if I must.  Anyone know
> > a good way to do this that is less than 5 steps per sync?
> 
> What kind of calendar data, and what do you want to do with it?  If you
> just want to view meeting invitations, and possibly add them to a local
> calendar, Evolution will do what you want out of the box.  I think you
> can even accept or decline invitations and the sender will get your
> response; but I haven't used Evolution/Exchange since we migrated to
> Lotus Notes a few years back (rant: if you want to gain a new
> appreciation for exchange, try using Lotus Notes for a while).
> Certainly you can do all this with the Exchange Connector plugin.
> 
> I don't know if it's possible for Evolution with or without the
> Connector plugin to import existing calendar data.  You can probably
> export your calendar from Outlook to an iCalendar file though, which
> Evolution can import.
> 
> HTH,
> Jason
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