DavMail, open standards for Exchange

I have been frustrated with the Exchange server here at work, and found that Evolution MAPI support simply crashes everytime I try it. It is in the ubuntu bug list if you want to go hunting. And I really don’t like Evolution anyway.

But I just found DavMail, and it appears to work great. It is basically a java program that connects to an Outlook OWA (up tp 2007) and presents the information through standard services IMAP/SMTP/CalDAV. So I can now use Sunbird as my Calendar client, pointing it to a CalDAV server running on localhost,  and it seems to work a treat. Installation is straightforward on most platforms and after a bit of fidlling with the settings it is up and running.