I'm finally decided to do the last step and move myself to linux on my work computer but the mail client makes me sick.

I've decided to run an opensuse 11 for all his xen capabilities and I just don't find a good outlook substitute.

I'm trying evolution and Kmail, guess there are lots of others but since I see that both have some trouble on managing my 1000 mail that I have by now on my income site, I'm willing what can happen if I import all the .pst which keeps all the mails older than 6 months.

I guess I'm with a good machine, an optiplex 755 from dell, with 2 gb of ram, but the evolution stuck don't know why and the Kmail uses POP to connect my exchanges server and that sucks.


Then here it goes, what do you people recommend?

edit
I need contacts, appointments and the "send on the future" capability that offers outlook, how I do that without the mail client going extremely slow?
What I mean is that I need all the outlook stuff with like contacts, tasks ... (like evolution does) , but on an evolution on steroids.





Thanks.

The final paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense.

Have you looked at thunderbird? It's my favourite mail client

I use Thunderbird as well (but I don't have to deal with exchange here, last job yes, this one no), Add the Lightning add-on for tasks and calendar and I'm set... .

Evolution seems to be the most recommended client for Outlook replacement, but I always found it heavy bloated and slow.

That's the point, I like evolution but it goes slow and some times crashes.

I'll give thunderbird+lightnig a try, let's see.


many thanks.

Ok, thank you man.

thunderbird + lightning goes fast and have lot of stuff on it's add-ons.

But I can not see my contacts, and neither the corporate contacts from exchange. What you suggest? any idea about what i've done wrong?


many thanks

On a windows machine Thunderbird should have given you the opportunity to import the settings from outlook. once they are in Thunderbird you should be able to transfer them from teh windows Thunderbird to the Linux Thunderbird.

As for the corporate contacts, Exchange uses LDAP if I'm not mistaken and Thunderbird supports LDAP for contacts. so there 'should' be a way to configure Thunderbird to read the Exchange directory for contacts..

Take a look at this..
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/03...change-server/
maybe that will help square up the finishing touches.