What is Evolution?

Evolution is an Personal Information Manager/email client for Gnome that is included in Gnome-based installations of many Linux distributions. It features such options as a personal contact manager, email, address book, and a task list.

Setting up Email in Evolution:

Lets take a look at setting up an email account in evolution.  To setup an email account in evolution, follow the instructions below(this setup is performed in Ubuntu 8.04 with Evolution 2.22.3.1, the look and feel of your setup may vary):

This Version of Evolution:

1.Launch Evolution:

A. Click on “Applications”

B. Point to “Internet”

C. Click on “Evolution Mail”

2. Click on “Edit” then click on “Preferences”:

3. You will be presented with the “Evolution Preferences” dialog box:

4. Click on the “Add” button:

5. You will be presented with the “Mail Configuration” box:

6.   Click on “Forward” to continue:

7. You will be presented with the “Identity” box:

8. Enter your account information:

9.  You will be presented with the “Receiving Email” box:

10. Select the type of email servers you will use to receive your emails ( This is typically a POP/POP3 server):

11.  After successfully entering your email settings, click on the “Forward” button:

12. You will be presented with the “Receiving Options” box:

13. Select the options you would like and click on the “Forward” button ( Depending on your situation, you may wish to leave the email on the server to act as a non-official backup for instance):

14. Select the type of server you will be using to send your mail: (typically SMTP)

15. If you need to confirm your identity/use a form of authentication to send your email, select your authentication type and click on “Forward”:

16. You will be presented with the “Account management” box:

17. Give your email account a descriptive name, this will help you if you have more than one account setup:

18. You will be presented with the “Done” box:

19. Click on “Apply” to complete the setup:

20. You should see your account setup in the “Evolution Preferences” Dialog box:

21. Here is the email account (inside the red box) for clarification:

22. Click on close, your email account should be functional at this point:

23. Here is a view of the inbox:

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