Evolution Exchange supports the following basic Microsoft Exchange features:
General
Remote Exchange Information Store: Allows you to access mail, address book (including the Global Address List folder), calendars, and task folders on an Exchange server from Evolution.
Palm Synchronization: Supported for Contacts and Calendars on Exchange.
Password Management: Allows you to reset your password. If your password has expired, Evolution asks you to change your password at startup.
MAPI Support: You can connect to Exchange 2007 server by using the MAPI connector.
Viewing Mail in Exchange Folders: Mail stored on the Exchange server is visible in the Mail component in Evolution.
Sending E-mail via Exchange Protocols: If you use the Microsoft Exchange mail transport protocol to send e-mail, make sure that the address you have entered as your e-mail address is exactly the one that the Exchange server has on file. This might be “yourname@exchange-server.example.com” rather than “yourname@example.com”.
Out of Office Message: You can set ‘out of Office' message that will automatically be sent to people who send mails to you while you are away from office.
Send Options: You can set the priority and sensitivity of the sent message so that the recipients will know how important the message is.The priority can have one of the three values - High, Normal or Low and sensitivity can have one of the four values-Normal, Personal, Private and Confidential respectively. You can also enable delivery receipt request and read receipt request for the messages sent.
Calendar
Meeting Requests/Proposal: Allows Evolution users to schedule meetings. You can check when other users are busy according to their calendars and send the meeting requests accordingly.
Adding iCalendar Meeting Requests to the Calendar: Allows you to add the iCalendar meeting requests you receive to your Exchange calendar. Note that you need to specify the calendar from the list, to which you want to add your meeting schedules.
Contacts
Address Completion: Supported for your Exchange Contacts folder.
Adding vCards to the Address Book: Allows you to save the vCards you receive in attachment to your Exchange address book.New Address Book entries can also be created on Exchange from received e-mail messages with a single click.
Work Offline (disconnected mode)
To mark a folder for offline usage, right-click the folder, then click Properties. Click Copy Folder Content Locally for Offline Operation. For more information see Section 3.2.4, Working Offline.
Recall Message function is not available.