Evolution Email Client
Evolution provides functionality for Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Memos. You can switch to another functionality by using the 'Switcher' buttons in the lower left corner. Depending on the displayed functionality also the displayed elements in the window differ.
To configure the Evolution client to access the Office 365 environment, follow the steps below. Note: These instructions use Evolution 3.10.4 and the evolution-ews plugin version 3.10.4, result may be vary on different versions. Procedures: Open Evolution; From the menu bar, click Edit- Preferences; Choose Add from the Mail Accounts menu.; Click Continue. 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. Mailbird is a desktop email client for Windows that unifies your multiple email accounts from many different providers into one place. As far as email clients go, Mailbird is the definition of software that is consistent with its multi-account support functionality throughout the whole interface. Platform: Windows 7, 8, and 10. Evolution Malta Holdings Limited and Evolution Gaming Malta Limited are licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission (GB) under account numbers 41655 and 39002 respectively. 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.
Corresponding elements in the mail main window:
Menu bar | |
Tool bar | |
Folder list | Search bar |
Message list | |
Switcher | Preview pane |
Status bar | |
The folder list gives you a list of the available folders for each account. To see the contents of a folder, click the folder name and its contents are displayed in the message list.
The message list displays all the read and unread messages that you have in the chosen folder. To view an email in the preview pane, click the message in the message list.
The switcher at the bottom of the side bar lets you switch between the Evolution tools: Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Memos and Tasks.
For more information see Changing the Switcher appearance.
You can disable the folder list and the switcher side bar by toggling View ▸ Layout ▸ Show Side Bar or pressing F9.
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The preview pane displays the message that is currently chosen in the message list.
You can disable the preview pane by toggling View ▸ Preview ▸ Show Message Preview.
Elements in the calendar main window:
Menu bar | ||
Tool bar | ||
Calendar list | Search bar | |
Appointment list | Task list | |
Month pane | Memo list | |
Switcher | ||
Status bar | ||
The appointment list displays all your scheduled appointments in the time frame selected.
The month pane is a small view of a calendar month. To display additional months, drag the column border to the right. You can also select a range of days in the month pane to display a custom range of days in the appointment list.
Tasks and memos are just displayed for your convenience and are not associated to any appointments. Use the switcher to go to their main windows.
Elements in the contacts main window:
Menu bar | |
Tool bar | |
Address book list | Search bar |
Contacts list | |
Switcher | Contact preview |
Status bar | |
You can disable the contact preview by toggling View ▸ Preview ▸ Contact Preview.
This tutorial guides you to setup Evolution Mail Client for Gmail via IMAP mode. I do it on Evolution version 3.18 on Linux Mint 18.1. Evolution is a free replacement for Microsoft Outlook and is available on all GNU/Linux distros. If you use GNOME, most likely you will use Evolution as well, and I hope this tutorial helps you to setup it. Happy mailing!Subscribe to UbuntuBuzz Telegram Channel to get article updates directly.
Why IMAP?
The choice is between POP or IMAP method (as Gmail provides both). For short, IMAP is best when the user has multiple devices to access one same Gmail account. You can think IMAP as Telegram system, where deleting messages in one devices also deletes same messages on another devices. Enable IMAP on Gmail Web
Drive your web browser to login to Gmail > go to Settings > go to POP/IMAP settings > enable IMAP > Save Settings. After this, start your Evolution.
1. Create New Account
Menu File > New > Mail Account.
2. Enter Email Address
On the Account Wizard, enter your email address and make sure to enable 'Look up mail server details...'.
3. Looking for IMAP Setup
The option will find you your email provider (in this case, Gmail) settings possible. By default, you will get receiving=imapx and sending=smtp and this is what we need. Press Next button and the wizard finished.
4. Login with Password
Now, Evolution will connect to the internet and ask you to login using your Gmail account.
5. Receive Mails
Once logged in, Evolution can access the whole Gmail mails and folders. You can, however, configure another computers with these 5 steps using the same IMAP mode so you can access same email accounts on different computers. Now you can enjoy accessing (read & write) mails from Gmail.