How To Configure An Email Account In Evolution
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Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Check the Privacy Policy sub-page for a general information about user data usage.

Please note, the list is not in any specific order to choose the best desktop email clients. #1 Evolution Linux email client. Image source: evolution. It is a free Linux email client that features a calendar, time planning system, address book. It supports all common email protocols - IMAP, POP3, SMTP with TLS authentication. Evolution is a fully-featured open source groupware application — and a powerful, flexible and generally great email client, too. Evolution makes it easy to connect to Microsoft Exchange servers, filters spam using SpamAssassin and supports S/MIME for secure messaging.

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What application (Thunderbird, Evolution, Claws, or some another) works best with GMail via IMAP? First of all I want correct GMail labels support (for example an email client shouldn't think of GMail labels as of independent folders, treating messages with multiple labels as multiple different identical messages in different folders), incl.

Apr 14, 2021 Evolution is another popular email client from Gnome. It is useful if you need some basic functionalities such as email integration, calendar, and address book. With a simple interface, Evolution is easy to use, lightweight, and provides built-in PGP encryption.
Evolution is used as the default personal information manager on several Linux distributions which use GNOME by default, most notably Debian and Fedora. Ubuntu has replaced Evolution with Mozilla Thunderbird as the default e-mail client since Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Defunct Mac OS X and Windows ports.

Online Support

First consult the Evolution Manual.
The evolution-list mailing list is the best place to seek further assistance with using Evolution, for example when you have problems.
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The evolution-hackers mailing list is for discussions among developers. The topics can get pretty technical.
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Many Evolution developers and users can also be found on IRC (irc.gimp.org), channel #evolution.
Bugs and feature requests can be filled under GNOME issue tracker, depending on the place of the issue, but it's fine when it's filled against other project, because issues can be moved between projects there. Evolution still use the old GNOME bugzilla for the old reports, but any new issues should be filled in the current issue tracker, namely for evolution-data-server, evolution, evolution-ews and evolution-mapi. Always search it for any existing reports, even closed, to not create unnecessary duplicates. Also mention your versions, because it's possible that the issues had been already fixed (especially when Long Term Support distributions provide older versions).

Evolution in Flatpak

Flathub contains the latest stable version. Users can build and run the latest stable (or development) Evolution in Flatpak, even on older distributions. A detailed guide can be found on the Evolution Flatpak sub-page.

Get the Source Code

The Evolution project releases its source code as tarball files, from which Free Software distributors can create easily-installable binary packages for users.

Most likely your Free Software distribution (Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) already provides binary packages for Evolution. The following links are only for the source code.

The latest stable releases are the 3.38 series. Tarballs can be found for these various components (see also the '.news' files accompanying them for a list of changes):

evolution-data-server 3.38.x
evolution 3.38.x
evolution-ews 3.38.x(optional, for Microsoft Exchange servers)
evolution-mapi 3.38.x(optional, for old Microsoft Exchange servers)

The latest development snapshot tarballs (3.39 series, what will become 3.40) can be found below (after the first 3.39 release):

evolution-data-server 3.39.x
evolution 3.39.x
evolution-ews 3.39.x(optional, for Microsoft Exchange servers)
evolution-mapi 3.39.x(optional, for old Microsoft Exchange servers)

Or you can clone the source code repositories with git:

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server.git (Browse)
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution.git (Browse)
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews.git(optional, for Microsoft Exchange servers) (Browse)
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-mapi.git(optional, for old Microsoft Exchange servers) (Browse)

You can also view the schedule of upcoming releases.

Developer Resources

Patch Guidelines
How to Build Evolution from sources
Environment Variables to Aid Debugging
ESource File Format and Migration Guide
Extensions (gradually replacing EPlugin)
Release Process and Schedule
Account Autoconfiguration Support
Reporting a bug: If you are certain that you have found a software bug in the code, use GNOME Gitlab. Refer to #Online Support if you are not sure.
Obsolete: See all the easy-to-fix bugs in Bugzilla. Bugzilla has been superseded by Gitlab.
Obsolete: Bugzilla Topics (used in 'Status Whiteboard' entry). Bugzilla has been superseded by Gitlab.

Reference Manuals

Camel(for email)
Evolution-Data-Server
Evolution Shell
Evolution Utilities
Evolution Mail Composer
Evolution Mail Formatter
Private D-Bus Interfaces

The following materials have aged. Some parts are no longer accurate and need a rewrite.

Evolution Data Server Architecture
Evolution Architecture
EPlugin Information
Camel library information - Mail access and storage library
Overview of Filtering API

Evolution-EWS (Exchange Web Services)

Exchange Web Services operations feature's parity matrix with /EWS (evolution-ews)

Feature Planning

Future Planning Page
Reducing Preferences

People

How To Configure An Email Account In Evolution

Maintainers

MilanCrha (mcrha)

Future Planning Page

User Documentation

AndreKlapper (andre)

GNOME Evolution - Wikipedia

IRC nick names in brackets.

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