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Petition to Get Ximian Connector Ported to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the stick-it-to-the-man dept.

babbage writes "There has been some talk recently on various mailing lists about getting a Mac OS X version of Ximian Connector extension to Evolution, which allows Evolution to interact with Microsoft Exchange 2000 servers much as Microsoft Outlook can. It is already possible to build and run Gnome and Evolution on Mac OS X, thanks largely to projects such as Fink. Ximian is aware of this interest, and has indicated that if enough users expressed a serious interest in buying the product -- the target number was 500 paying users -- they would be willing to produce a Mac OS X port of Connector. To that end, I've set up an petition to help gauge user interest."

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  1. Nice idea but... by trollbot · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I find Mail.app to be a *much* better performing MUA, and it already supports Exchange servers out of the box. Add to that powerful filtering options, near perfect HTML rendering and anti-aliasing, the most complete IMAP4 implementation yet, and the fact that Apple generously supplies it with each and every OS X system, and I see no reason for anything else.

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  2. Priorities... by gabe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, how about folks get Ximian Evolution to be stable and work well under OSX first?

    I spent a few days compiling all of the stuff that evolution requires using Fink and it works ok, but it's still a tad unstable, and quite slow.

    How many people are even using it under OSX anyways?

    In my experience it was too slow under XDarwin for everyday use. Hopefully the project to port GTK+ to Quartz will work out and it can run "natively". Perhaps that would be faster. Perhaps I should just get a G4. Perhaps Apple should make an iBook with a G4 so they're affordable. Oh well...

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