8-CURRENT && Evolution 2.24.5: can not change 'Out of Office' state/message

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:21 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running the above mentioned environment against an Exchange server (only
> OWA, no IMAP allowed); it works mostly as it should, but I can't change
> the so called 'Out of Office' state and message; when I go to
> 
> Preferences-->Account-->Exchange settings
> 
> and fill in the text for 'Out of Office' reply and check the state to
> indicate that I'm out, the values are not updated after closing the
> pop-up window;
> 
> if I use a browser against the Exchange server and set it this way, I'm
> asked on next Evolution start if I want to switch it to 'inhouse', which
> works; as well the message is now displayed in the 'Exchange settings',
> but again a change there has no effect and no error message;
> 
> what I am missing?

I'm no longer using evo-exchange.  If no one answers you here, you may
want to consult Google or evolution-list at gnome.org .

> 
> btw: what I'm really missing from my normal mutt/vim mail environment
> (I'm just typing this message through) is a vim-like editor for
> composing/writing the text of a mail; is there some plug-in for this
> which let me write the mail in an external editor and push it back into
> Evolution?

Yes, there was.  I'm not sure how functional it still is:

http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/gnome-vim/

Joe

> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 	matthias
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