Features

Evolution's calendar software An older version of Evolution

Evolution delivers the following features:

E-mail retrieval with the POP and IMAP protocols and e-mail transmission with SMTP. Secure network connections encrypted with SSL, TLS and STARTTLS. E-mail encryption with GPG and S/MIME. E-mail filters. Search folders, saved searches that look like normal mail folders as an alternative to using filters and search queries. Automatic spam filtering with SpamAssassin and Bogofilter. Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server, Novell GroupWise and Kolab (provided in separate packages as plug-ins). Calendar support for the iCalendar file format, the WebDAV and CalDAV standards and Google Calendar. Contact management with local address books, LDAP and Google address books. Synchronization via SyncML with SyncEvolution and with Palm OS devices via gnome-pilot. Evolution's address books can be used as a data source in LibreOffice. An RSS reader plug-in.

The Novell GroupWise plug-in is no longer in active development. A Scalix plug-in is also available, but its development stopped in 2009.

Connecting to Microsoft Exchange Server

Depending on which version of Microsoft Exchange Server is used, different packages need to be installed to be able to connect to it. The documentation recommends the evolution-ews package (which uses Exchange Web Services) for Exchange Server 2007, 2010 and newer. If evolution-ews does not work well, it is advised to try the evolution-mapi package. This supports Exchange Server 2010, 2007 and possibly older versions supporting MAPI. For Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and possibly earlier versions supporting Outlook Web App the package evolution-exchange is recommended.