Evolution Exchange breakage

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 05:22 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 22:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 18:01 +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > Suddenly, Evolution has stopped working with the exchange connector.
> > > Whenever I try to read a folder, I get a pop-up with
> > > 
> > >         Error while Refreshing folder (or Error while opening
> > >         folder ...)
> > >         Lost connection to Evolution Exchange backend process
> > > 
> > > Sometimes I get a "folder doesn't exist" message.
> > > 
> > > Calendars seem to be OK.
> > > 
> > > I tried using the previous kernel, and I tried backing out the latest
> > > Evolution update, downgrading to evolution-2.12.3-4.fc8.x86_64.rpm, but
> > > neither helps.
> > > 
> > > Anybody else seeing this?  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > My suggestion is to head over to the Evolution list, where a lot of the
> > traffic in recent months has been about problems with Exchange 
> 
> That's probably my next stop, but I thought I'd check here first because
> it was working last week with F8 and fails now with F8, so I wondered if
> it was something that happened in F8.
> 
> > (to the
> > annoyance of those of us who don't use it).
> 
> I am truly sorry about that.  I really wish there were an
> enterprise-class alternative that I could persuade my enterprise to
> adopt, but that's not going to happen any time soon (whether due to lack
> of alternative or lack of ability to steer my lumbering enterprise...).

I feel your pain :-) Zimbra and Groupwise look like viable alternatives,
but it's a huge and potentially very disruptive decision for an
enterprise to make.

poc