Evolution
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring, address book and task list functionality.
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.
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.
Recent user activities on Evolution
- muhaaliss liked Evolution
- Infinity64 added Support for IMAP as a feature to EvolutionIn
Works well with OWA, fast and stable enoug on (X)ubuntu 12.04.
However if you want Exchange connection with Exchange 2k/2k3 you can use DavMail as IMAP/POP3/SMTP relay between OWA and any email client.
[Edited by zamiere, October 11]
Convenient, less bugged than the other open source alternatives.
Integrates perfectly with GNOME desktop.
I was never able to use their experimental Windows version.
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.
Windows version was never stable for several years.
Gnome project now only support Linux (I am out of my depth here) ...
the only Windows version is available from Softpedia .... but I would look elsewhere for a MS Mail client.
I am using pre-Australis Thunderbird available from Sourceforge
I cannot comment on "Evolution" for for other platforms ...
Other references
Gnome Project
My suggestions for Thunderbird for Windows pre-Australis ...
at 74 yrs I don't know how many years I have left to adapt to Linux.
Legacy - Portable TBird pre-Australis v52.6.0
[Legacy - TBird installer pre-Australis v59.0b1](https://ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/)
The features of Evolution include mail, contacts, calendars, memos, and RSS. I would prefer just a task list app without those features.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
According to AlternativeTo, Evolution runs on Linux, BSD, and GNOME, but it does not run on macOS, web, or iOS.
Evolution
Reply written over 1 year ago
Best alternative to the Outlook in linux environment!