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Old 09-22-2006, 12:08 PM   #1
murkin
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Multiple Exchange Accounts Within Evolution


Hi all,
I can't seem to find an answer for this, though I did see some posts online from early 2005 where someone said this was supposed to be fixed soon.

I got Evolution working correctly and connecting to my company's Exchange server. Very cool actually; however, I have another account I need to view. It is a shared email address used by our helpdesk. When I add the account information into the Exchange accounts wizard, it appears to go through, but then throws the following two errors:

"You may only configure a single Exchange account."

[ok]

"Error while Scanning folders in "Exchange server webmail.comanyname.com". Could not connect to Evolution Exchange backend process: No such file or directory"

I also see that there's an option under the File menu for "Subscribe to Other User's Folder", but that doesn't work for me either. "Generic Error".

I'm working hard to get this system set up well so that I can dump Windows and show the way to others on my team.

Any ideas?
 
Old 09-22-2006, 06:35 PM   #2
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What I would do is to create another Linux user account and configure Evolution in the second user account to use that second Exchange account. This isn't as inconvenient as it may seem. You can log in to the console under one user account, then open a terminal and su or sux to the second user account. I do this to keep my private files away from the account that I use to access the Internet.

The second account has to set the DISPLAY variable to :0.0 and then it can use Evolution or any other GUI application.
Code:
user1> sux - user2
password: ****
user2> evolution &
Make sure that you use the dash after the su or sux command.

This solution is a lot easier and faster than trying to work around a limit in Evolution.

The latest SuSE has sux as a link to su. It seems that the SuSE developers incorporated sux functionality into the su command. Gentoo has deliberately left the sux command out of its distribution because the Gentoo developers consider sux to be insecure.

Last edited by stress_junkie; 09-22-2006 at 06:46 PM.
 
Old 09-24-2006, 11:15 PM   #3
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thanks for the suggestion stress_junkie. i'll report back as soon as i try this out.
 
Old 09-29-2006, 08:05 AM   #4
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it worked! very nice. too bad i can't view the messages for both accounts within evolution, however at least i can have two instances of evolution running at the same time. hopefully this gets sorted out in future updates to the connector. thanks for your help!
 
  


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