Continuing the discussion from Looking for a windows 7 code:
Evolution looks somewhat promising…has anyone had direct experience with it?
I haven’t tried again to hook Linux to Exchange 365 (or whatever M$ has decided to call whatever it is these days) since whomever maintained it dropped the Exchange connectifier plugin (whatever it was called) for Thunderbird. I wasn’t THAT thrilled with it, but since Outlook is insidiously bad, I was willing to live with the shortcomings just to avoid Outlook. Since then, I’ve been forced to comply, and learned to live with the headaches (literal AND figurative).
So I am interested, too.
Initial results: evolution can’t connect to exchange 365. Well… I have not yet gotten it connected to the Exchange 365 to which I need to connect for worky-stuff.
If you need this, install evolution-ews (exchange web services, I think that stands for) in addition to evolution.
But so far, no joy on my end.
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I don’t have to worry about MS Exchange considerations, thankfuly. Just accurately and faithfully converting existing Outlook .ost and .pst files into whatever format a Linux based PIM (like Evolution) would need to allow me to pickup wherever I left off, Windows-wise.
Dear lord is that depressingly true. Of the various strains on my aging work laptop at boot I mean “revive from hibernation” - cold boots are sufficiently painful that they’re to be avoided, loading Outlook is by far the most strenuous. And all I need it to do is email and calendar functions!
Me, well I just turn on imap and pop3 then add an entry into ~/.fetchmailrc and let procmail+fetchmail store that in my user folder as a mdir format so mutt w/(ical extensions installed) and vim can do the bulk of the work. If one needs to do searching then ripgrip, z, and for html/image based email; well those are easy enough to have mailcap display the good ones and procmail throw out the bad ones.
Point being;
- I’m using the same tool suite that I daily use (git, vim, bash, tmux/screen, dwm, cron, clamav, gpg, pass(1))
- I have permanent encrypted archival of email sent and received without someone else’s agenda behind it or never worrying about my inbox shutting down
- procmail can execute scripts based on contents of the message thus I can remotely automate systems via an out of bounds system and mailing lists
- This email system uses less than 25Mb of RAM, is highly portable, and when something new comes along this is still going to keep chugging along.
- Did I forget to say, git and vim?!
lol…your suggested solution doesn’t surprise me at all! 
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