"linux friendly" email hosting

xmrmx · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 18

I am currently using a hosted MS Exchange Account for my email. It's worked out well. Using OWA & my BlackBerry gives me a lot of flexibility when I'm on the road. However, I couldn't get Evolution to connect to my account. I've been down the road of asking for help from the hosting provider but they just give me "linux, not supported". So, rather than argue with them I am open to switching providers.

Does anyone have any recommendations of a hosting company that does support linux clients? Would I have to be looking at open-xchange hosters instead?

Anyway, just throwing this out there in case anyone has been in my shoes before and has made a move similar to my situation

msalerno · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:39 am Post subject:

Have you read up on the new MAPI extensions for evolution? Exchange integration is just around the corner. I have not found an overlay for this yet, so you would have to build it yourself if you are on gentoo.

Does your service provider offer a pop or imap connector?

Are you looking for a email (pop/imap/smtp) service? or are you looking for a mail/calendar/task/gal/etc. service?
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yther · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:00 am Post subject:

Gmail supports IMAP access, so you can use Evolution, Thunderbird, Kmail, or many other clients for that.

Of course you have to agree to them analyzing your e-mail for targeted advertising, but if you're reading your mail via Evolution you won't see the ads anyway.

monsm · Guru Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 339 Location: London, UK

I was just looking at this too. There is an update for Gnome 2.28 it seems: evolution-exchange-2.28.2 is in portage.
So maybe you need to update Gnome ( ? ).

Apart from that. For my private email I use GMail...

Mons

msalerno · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:25 am Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that the evolution-exchange plugin uses the outlook web access rather than MAPI, but it might do what you need.

http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider/vsOWA
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NathanZachary · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:44 pm Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Off the Wall, as this is not Gentoo-specific.
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xmrmx · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 18

Oops... wrong forum sorry. My issue is really that my exchange hosting company will not support/help me figure out why evolution can't connect. I tried the MAPI plugin but it didn't work - according to all the guides I've read I had the settings correct.

I'm not a big fan of Google. I used GMail for a couple years until I found my investment ticker symbols showing up in places I didn't really like to see. Whether it comprises anything, I doubt it. I'm just not a fan of how they mine and present it to me - makes me feel like they're doing whatever the *ell they want to with my personal information and I have no say. So, I'm ok with paying for private hosting.

I've thought about just setting up an email server myself but the cost of static IPs from DSL/Cable providers is not worth it. I don't really want to fiddle with dynamic DNS. So hosting is fine. I'm just looking for a hosting company that supports linux based "rich" clients. OWA just doesn't cut it for me when it comes to calendar management.

jdmulloy · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:09 am Post subject:

rtomek · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

This looks interesting, haven't tried it myself