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Evolution

Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality.

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Platforms

  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Flathub
  • S/MIME
  • GNOME
  • OpenPGP
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Features

  1.  Calendar Integration
  2.  Contacts
  3.  CalDAV Support
  4.  Calendar View
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Multiple Account support
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  Exchange
  9.  IMAP Support
  10.  Personal Information Manager (PIM)
  11.  Spam Filter
  12. Google Calendar icon  Sync with Google Calendar
  13.  Works Offline
  14.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  15.  GPG Encryption
  16.  Reminders
  17.  CardDAV Support
  18.  POP3 Support
  19.  Encrypted Email
  20.  Gtk
  21.  Integrated Spam Protection
  22.  Multiple languages
  23.  WebDAV Support
  24.  Built-in RSS reader

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Evolution is praised for its integration with Linux and GNOME desktop environments, prominent for excellent compatibility, task management, and Microsoft Exchange support. However, its Windows version has been unstable. Users highlight it as a preferable alternative to Thunderbird due to its straightforward interface, efficient defaults, and absence of bothersome integrations. Some users prefer multiple apps over Evolution's all-in-one format, yet it remains favored for email and scheduling tasks.
Top Positive Comment
Linus
1

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)

arsCynic
2

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.

Edit: too many Gnome dependencies.

yue-dongchen
1
  • Capable scheduling of repeating events and tasks (no other open-source GUI Linux app capable of e.g. bi-weekly events that I'm aware of)
  • Straightforward interface
Duncan Briggs
1

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

Guest
0

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...

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RemovedUser
5

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.

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Jonathan Brickman
1

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.

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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 icon 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

Our users have written 16 comments and reviews about Evolution, and it has gotten 212 likes

Evolution was added to AlternativeTo by EmasXP on and this page was last updated .