Adding Your Exchange Account to Evolution

After you have installed Evolution Exchange, you need to set up access for your Exchange account on both the Exchange server and within Evolution.


Exchange Server Settings

Check with your system administrator to ensure that:

The Novell Web site knowledgebase has additional information about checking to make sure that your Exchange server accepts connections from Evolution.


Standard Configuration Tool for Evolution Exchange

When you know that your server is ready for you to connect, you are ready to add your Exchange account to Evolution Exchange.


Simple Configuration Tool for Evolution Exchange

Evolution Exchange 2.4 comes with a simple account creation tool for some installations. Other installations require the standard account tool described in Standard Configuration Tool for Evolution Exchange below.

If you have no accounts configured, the simple assistant starts when you start Evolution. It asks only for the Outlook Web Access URL, and your username and password. Evolution Exchange determines the remaining information on its own.

If the simple account tool does not run automatically, create an account as described below.


Creating an Exchange Account, Step One: Identity


Creating a New Exchange Account

  1. Click Edit > Preferences.

  2. Click Add.

  3. Create the account following the procedure in Starting Evolution for the First Time. Remember to select Microsoft Exchange as server type in the Receiving Mail section.

Only one Microsoft Exchange account can be configured in Evolution at a time.


Changing an Existing Account to Work with Exchange

If you have an existing e-mail account, and use the following procedure for Exchange:

  1. Click Edit > Preferences, then click Mail Accounts.

  2. Select the account you want to convert, then click Edit.

  3. Click the Identity tab, then change your e-mail address as needed.

  4. Click the Receiving Mail tab, then select Microsoft Exchange as your server type.

  5. Type your user name, and the OWA url. Click Authenticate, then enter the password in the popup and the Exchange server authenticates your account.

  6. Select your authentication method.


    Creating an Exchange Account, Step Two: Receiving Mail

  7. Click the Receiving Options tab, then specify how often to check for new mail, your Global Catalog server name and whether to apply filters to messages in your Inbox, check for junk, set a password expiry period and any other settings you want to include.


    Creating an Exchange Account, Step Three: Mail Options

  8. Use the Defaults tab, to define folders, opt to send cc: or bcc: mails to certain IDs, and set options for Message Receipts.

  9. Use the Security tab to set PGP and s/MIME options.

  10. Quit Evolution and start it again. Changes to Evolution Exchange accounts configuration are not active until you have restarted the application.