Evolution
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- S/MIME
- GNOME
- OpenPGP
Features
- Calendar Integration
- Contacts
- CalDAV Support
- Calendar View
- Ad-free
- Multiple Account support
- Exchange
- IMAP Support
- Personal Information Manager (PIM)
- Spam Filter
- Dark Mode
Sync with Google Calendar- Works Offline
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- GPG Encryption
- Reminders
- CardDAV Support
- POP3 Support
- Encrypted Email
- Gtk
- Integrated Spam Protection
- Multiple languages
- WebDAV Support
- Built-in RSS reader
Tags
- microsoft-exchange
- Task List
- ldap
- address-book
- GNOME
- icalendar
- exchange-server-software
- exchange-client
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What is Evolution?
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality. Evolution supports a wide range of industry standard data formats and network protocols for information exchange, with an emphasis on standards compliance and security. Evolution can also integrate smoothly with Microsoft Exchange by way of the “Exchange Web Services” (EWS) extension. Works well with Gmail too.
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
GnuPG 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.
Evolution information
Developed by
The GNOME Project Licensing
Open Source (LGPL-2.1) and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.4Alternatives
69 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Way better defaults than Thunderbird - doesn't try to download all emails by default, sorts emails in from top to bottom from latest to oldest, doesn't try and open things in its own web browser, doesn't have annoying Mozilla/Google service integration/telemetry.
Pretty decent, but quite annoying it still can't live in the system tray natively. E.g., an option so minimizing/closing the window hides Evolution in the system tray.
The features of Evolution include mail, contacts, calendars, memos, and RSS. I would prefer multiple separate apps instead of a single monolithic app. According to AlternativeTo, Evolution runs on Linux, BSD, and GNOME, but it does not run on macOS, web, or iOS.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
I've been using it in Linux for years. Better than Thunderbird. Not just e-mail features are good, also Task management, Google accounts integration...
Good integration with Microsoft exchange. Very simple and nice UI. For me it's much better than Thunderbird. Using it for years on Linux (from time to time trying other mail/calendar applications, but always coming back)
Evolution has become the top-quality email client on Linux. Compatibility and functionality is excellent, and the message composer is by far the best of all.
Using right now on MX Linux; you'll want to choose distro carefully of course.